poll-bound Assam

Assam, Feb 7: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit poll-bound Assam and West Bengal on Sunday. He will attend a public meeting at 3:30 pm in Bengal’s Haldia today. Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is on the invitee list of PM’s official events as per protocol. However, she is unlikely to attend the event. The exact reason for this uncertainty has not been specified, but the “insult meted out to her” on January 23, when Jai Shri Ram’ slogans were raised at an event just before her speech, could be the cause, an official at the state secretariat said.

In the first leg of his visit, Prime Minister Modi will lay the foundation stone of two hospitals in Assam’s Dhekiajuli in Sonitpur districts. He will also launch ‘Asom Mala’, a program for state highways and major district roads.

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PM Modi will then make his way to Bengal on Sunday evening where he is set to inaugurate the LPG import terminal built by Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited. Built at a cost of Rs 1,100 crore, the terminal has a capacity of 1 million metric tonnes per annum and will supply LPG to households in Bengal and other eastern and north-eastern states.

LIVE UPDATES IN PM MODI’S VISIT HERE:

  • PM Modi said, “In Union Budget 2020, Rs 1,000 crore has been allotted for the welfare of tea workers.”
  • Speaking in Assam after laying the foundation stone of two medical colleges in Dhekiajul, PM Modi said that AIIMS will be built in Guwahati soon. He promoted using the regional language for studies and said that students will be taught in Assamese in these medical colleges.
  • Assam will get 1600 more MBBS doctors after starting the new medical colleges.
  • Until 2016, there were six medical colleges in Assam, but in the last six years six more medical colleges have been established in Assam and two more medical colleges will be set up

  • PM Modi has inaugurated road projects under Assam Mala — worth Rs 7,700 crore — and also laid the foundation stone of two medical colleges of Biswanath Chariali and Charaideo from Dhekiajuli.
  • PM Modi has reached Dhekiajuli in the poll-bound state of Assam. He will inaugurate projects worth Rs 7,700 crore there.
  • In a tweet, PM Modi said, “Leaving for Assam and West Bengal. Do watch the programs LIVE.“

  • Announcing his schedule on Twitter, PM Modi said, “Tomorrow evening, I would be in Haldia, West Bengal. A program there, will dedicate to the nation the LPG import terminal built by BPCL. Will also dedicate to the nation DobhiDurgapur Natural Gas Pipeline section of the Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga project.”

  • PM Modi’s schedule | Prime Minister Narendra Modi will first lay the foundation stone of two hospitals in Assam’s Dhekiajuli in Sonitpur districts. Besides, he will also launch ‘Asom Mala’ — a programme for state highways and major district roads. He will then proceed to Bengal in the evening to inaugurate the LPG import terminal built by Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited. Next, he will lay the foundation stone for a second Catalytic-Isodewaxing unit of Indian Oil Corporation’s Haldia Refinery in West Bengal. PM Modi Modi will also commission a four-lane ROB-cum-flyover at Ranichak in West Bengal’s Haldia on National Highway (NH) 41.