Chennai, June 9 (UNI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Tamil
Nadu tomorrow and will address a public meeting at Vellore tomorrow,
where he will sound the bugle for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
On his arrival in Chennai, Mr Shah is likely to meet leaders of the
State BJP unit after which he will address a public meeting at Vellore
as part of BJP's outreach programme.
The BJP is observing a month-long public outreach programme between
May 30 and June 30 to mark the government's ninth anniversary and
Mr Shah will fly to Andhra Pradesh after the Vellore event.
He was earlier scheduled to address the meeting on June 8, but was
postponed to June 11 on Sunday, before it was preponed by a day to
tomorrow.
The State BJP leaders are making elaborate arrangements for his visit
and is expected to give him a rousing welcome.
BJP sources said Mr Shah's visit will galvanise the grassroot cadres
of the BJP and will be the key to the preparations for the Lok Sabha
polls neat year and also for the 2026 Assembly polls, as the saffron
party, which has four MLAs in the State Assembly, is expected to gain
a firm footing in the State, where the Dravidian majors--the ruling
DMK and the Opposition AIADMK--have been alternatively ruling the
State, though AIADMK bucked the trend and won for the second term
in 2016, before the DMK, after a gap of ten years, dethroned it and
came to power in
Mr P Sudhakar Reddy, BJP’s National co-in-charge for Tamil Nadu said,
“This public meeting is organised as part of our ‘Maha Jan Sampark’,
a mass contact programme aimed at reaching out to the people about
the achievements during the past nine years of Prime Minister Narendra
Modi government at the Centre.
It is being conducted in every parliamentary constituency, he said.
Mr Reddy said the party is making massive arrangements for the public
meeting at Kandaneri and BJP state president K Annamalai would preside
over the meeting.
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