PM Modi to announce package, projects for poll-bound Bihar

State unit of BJP has requested central leadership for three more rally's by PM

With Assembly election closing in, the BJP has removed all hurdles to capitalise the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The state unit of the BJP has requested the central leadership for three more rally's by the PM ahead of the announcement of poll schedule. 

Modi is going to hold a rally on Saturday in Muzaffarpur, which would kick-start party's poll-campaign in the state. In this rally, the PM would announce special package and other projects for the poll bound state. 

"The Prime Minister will announce a package for Bihar and set an agenda for development of the state in the coming years at a public meeting in Muzaffarpur on July 25," Sushil Modi told reporters on Tuesday in Patna. He, however, did not give details of the package.

The former deputy chief minister has also said the state unit has requested the central leadership to schedule three more rallies by the PM in Bihar ahead of the announcement of the poll schedule.

The Prime Minister will be visiting the state after a gap of 15 months. Soon after his arrival at Patna airport on Saturday at 10.15 am, the Prime Minister will move to nearby Patna Veterinary College campus, from where he will inaugurate by remote the 38 KM long Daniyawan-Biharsarif railway line, the new campus of IIT, Patna at Bihta and the start of Jagdishpur-Haldiya gas pipeline project.

He will also launch the Rs. 5,000 crore Din Dayal Upadhayay Rural electrification Scheme. He will also flag off a Suvidha Train to Mumbai. From there, he will go to the national meet of Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), where he would release "Vision-2050" for agriculture.

There he will inaugurate three ambitious schemes of the Agriculture Ministry. To conclude his activities of the day, the PM would fly by a chopper to Muzaffarpur to address the NDA rally to sound the poll bugle for the assembly elections. 

His bête-noire, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, however, does not think much of the Prime Minister's visit to Bihar.

"There is not much hope of PM announcing anything new in the package he is expected to announce. His announcement would be a packaging of the existing ones initiated by me and approved by the UPA, However, I myself will be there to accord the PM a warm welcome whether we get something new or not," he said.