Bhubaneswar: BJP national president JP Nadda will arrive in Odisha on a two-day visit, which is part of Maha Jan Sampark Abhiyan on the completion of nine years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government at the Centre, on Thursday.
According to party sources, Nadda will land at Veer Surendra Sai airport in Jharsuguda at 4 pm. He will then proceed to BJP district unit office and hold discussions with principal office-bearers, party leaders and workers of Bargarh Lok Sabha constituency. “He will make a night halt at MCL guesthouse in Burla,” BJP State general secretary Golak Mohapatra informed.
On June 23, the BJP chief will travel to Bhawanipatna and pay his obeisance to the presiding deity at Maa Manikeswari temple in the town. He will then address a rally at Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium there and present the report card of the PM Narendra Modi government in the last nine years. After the Samabesh, he will meet prominent persons of the district and hold discussions with party’s principal office-bearers of Kalahandi Lok Sabha constituency before flying back to Delhi from Jharsuguda in the afternoon, Mohapatra added.
The party had earlier informed that his visit to Kalahandi has been deferred by a day due to unavoidable circumstances and he would reach there on June 23 instead of June 22.
Nadda had last visited the state in December when he addressed a public meeting at Tumudibandha under Baliguda Assembly constituency of Kandhamal district and another at Banpur under Chilika Assembly constituency.
Notably, the Odisha unit of the BJP has planned public rallies by the party’s top leaders such as Nadda, PM Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, to keep the party ready in case the assembly elections, scheduled to be held in May 2024, are advanced. The party workers will also reach out to around one crore households in the state as a part of the ‘Maha Jansampark Abhiyan’.
