PM Narendra Modi to address massive rally in Bengaluru on February 4, over 1 lakh people likely to attend

More than 1 lakh people are expected to attend PM Modi`s rally at the Palace grounds in Bengaluru.

Bengaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address a massive BJP rally here on Sunday that marks the conclusion of the party's 90-day 'Nava Nirman Parivarthan Yatra' across poll-bound Karnataka.

According to reports, PM Modi will arrive in the city on Sunday afternoon and address the rally at the Palace grounds in the evening. 

Thousands of our cadres from across the state and party supporters are expected to participate in the event.

PM Modi was initially scheduled to address the rally on January 28, on the conclusion of the three-month yatra that commenced on November 1, however, it was put off to February 4 due to PM's hectic schedule.

A BJP functionary said that due to the Budget Session of Parliament and the Union Budget presentation on February 1, PM Modi could not attend the rally on last Sunday.

Elaborate security arrangements have been put in place for the rally at the sprawling venue in the city centre where the party is expecting at least one lakh people to attend and listen to Modi's speech.

"We have invited thousands of youth, especially techies and executives of IT and bio-tech companies in the city to personally listen to Modi's speech though it will also be telecast live on news channels and available on YouTube," asserted the official.

The party's state unit has opened an online registration and is using the social media, including Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp to personally invite the youth, techies, educated class and prominent citizens to the venue, assuring them of seating arrangements.

In the run-up to the state election, due in late April and early May, the BJP conducted the yatra, criss-crossing nearly all the 224 constituencies of the assembly across the state after its national president Amit Shah flagged it off.

The yatra, held with a view to bringing the BJP back to power in the southern state on the plank of transforming Karnataka through development, was led by its state unit president and former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa and party's other state leaders.

Besides Shah, party's central ministers Prakash Javadekar and Piyush Goyal who are in-charge of the BJP poll campaign in Karnataka, Ananth Kumar, D.V. Sadananda Gowda and Ananthkumar Hegde who hail from the state and the party's all-state leaders will participate in the rally and address the public.

As the pro-Kannada organisations have withdrawn their call for a Bengaluru shutdown on Sunday for the Prime Minister's intervention in the sharing of the Mahadayi river water with Goa state, the party's organisers are betting on a huge response to the rally from the public on a weekend.

(With IANS inputs)