Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Motihari in Bihar‘s East Champaran district on Friday, where he will launch multiple development projects worth over Rs 7,200 crore. He will also be launching multiple projects in West Bengal in a rally in Durgapur.
The PM will also address a public rally at Gandhi Maidan in Motihari town, the district headquarters, ahead of the assembly polls in the state.
Modi will lay the foundation stones, inaugurate and dedicate to the nation development projects related to rail, road, rural development, fisheries, electronics and information technology sectors, according to an official statement.
In line with his vision of a future-ready railway network, Modi will flag off four new Amrit Bharat trains between Rajendra Nagar (Patna) and New Delhi, Bapudham Motihari and Delhi (Anand Vihar terminal), Darbhanga and Lucknow (Gomti Nagar) and Malda Town and Lucknow (Gomti Nagar) via Bhagalpur.
The PM will also dedicate to the nation multiple rail projects.
These include automatic signalling in the Samastipur-Bachhwara stretch that will enable efficient train services, doubling of Darbhanga-Thalwara and Samastipur-Rambhadrapur rail lines, part of a project worth over Rs 580 crore, it said.
PM Modi to launch several rail projects in Bihar
The PM will also lay the foundation stones for multiple rail projects, including the development of infrastructure for maintenance of Vande Bharat trains at Patliputra, and automatic signalling on the Bhatni-Chhapra Gramin route (114 km) to enable streamlined train services, the statement said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also be visiting West Bengal on Friday afternoon to address a BJP rally in Durgapur and unveil infrastructure projects worth Rs 5,000 crore.
The visit comes in a politically charged backdrop marked by TMC’s outcry over alleged harassment of Bengali-speaking migrants in several BJP-ruled states.
This will be Modi’s first visit to the state after Samik Bhattacharya was appointed the new Bengal BJP president earlier this month.
“West Bengal is suffering due to TMC misrule”
“West Bengal is suffering due to TMC misrule. People are seeing the BJP with hope and are convinced that only the BJP can deliver on development. Tomorrow, 18th July, will be addressing a @BJP4Bengal rally in Durgapur. Do join!” the PM posted on X on Thursday night.
With West Bengal slated to go to the polls next year, the PM’s visit is being seen as a high-voltage political manoeuvre by the BJP to consolidate its position in the state.
It comes just days before Trinamool Congress supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s annual Martyrs’ Day rally on July 21, where she is expected to issue a clarion call to her party workers ahead of the polls.