Ode to Rani Lakshmi Bai, Nod to Top Cops: PM Modi's Strategic 3-day Visit to UP Ahead of Polls

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is proceeding on a packed three-day tour of Uttar Pradesh from Friday, with a series of events lined up on Day 1 in Bundelkhand. The PM will be spending two nights in Lucknow before returning to Delhi on Sunday.

Modi will be in Jhansi and Mahoba for public meetings and unveiling a series of projects worth Rs 6,250 crore on Friday from where he will go to Lucknow and attend the DGPs conference on Saturday and Sunday before returning to Delhi. The two public meetings are expected to be a strong political message to Bundelkhand region by PM Modi.

Modi started the day with an address to the nation at 9am in which he announced the repeal of the three farm laws. He will be landing in Mahoba around 2:45 pm to inaugurate projects like the Arjun Dam project to help alleviate the problem of water shortage and will then land in Jhansi at 5:15 pm to dedicate to nation multiple initiatives in defence sector at Rashtra Raksha Samparpan Parv.

PM Modi will also lay the foundation stone of 600 MW Ultramega Solar Power Park and inaugurate Atal Ekta Park in Jhansi, and hand over indigenously built defence equipment Light Combat Helicopter, drones/UAVs and advanced EW suite for naval ships to the armed forces. PM Modi will also lay foundation stone of a Rs 400 crore project of Bharat dynamics at Jhansi node of UP Defence Industrial Corridor and dedicate the facility to the nation to pay virtual tribute to martyrs at National War Memorial.

From there, the PM will proceed to Lucknow and land there around 7 pm for the DGPs/IGPs conference on November 20 and 21. He will be present in all sessions of the conference that starts on November 20 around 9 am and will return to Delhi around 6 pm on Sunday after the conclusion of the conference.

Since 2014, the Prime Minister has taken a keen interest in the DGPs’ conference. Unlike the symbolic presence earlier, he makes it a point to attend all sessions of the conference and encourages free and informal discussions that provide an opportunity to top police officials to directly brief the Prime Minister on key policing and internal security issues affecting the country, the PMO said in a statement.

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