Prime Minister Narendra Modi will start his two-day visit to Himachal Pradesh today (June 16) with a visit to Dharamshala.
The PM will arrive at a specially constructed helipad at the police stadium in Dharamshala, where he will be greeted by the state governor, chief minister, and Union minister Anurag Thakur. On Friday evening, Modi will fly to Delhi.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur reviewed the preparations for the Prime Minister’s visit on Wednesday. The Chief Minister presided over the review meeting and instructed the competent authorities to make suitable preparations following the procedure.
Jai Ram also goes through the roadshow preparations. He also went through the plans for a roadshow. “Various cultural groups dressed in traditional attire will greet the prime minister with their musical instruments during the roadshow,” he stated.
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Earlier in the day, the Chief Minister visited the All-India Chief Secretaries’ Conclave. Speaker of the Vidhan Sabha Vipin Singh Parmar, MP and State BJP President Suresh Kashyap, MP Kishan Kapoor, Chairman Wool Federation Trilok Kapoor, MLA Dharamshala Vishal Nehria, Chief Secretary Ram Subhag Singh, Director General of Police Sanjay Kundu, Principal Secretary GAD Bharat Khera, Deputy Commissioner Nipun Jindal, Superintendent of Police Khushal Sharma, and other senior officers were among those.
Following Himachal Pradesh, Modi will go to Gujarat, where he will lay the foundation stone for the permanent campus of the Central University of Gujarat, which will be built on a 100-acre plot of land in Kundhela village near Vadodara, according to the state government.
The Gujarat government has provided the property, and the Centre has set out Rs 743 crore to develop the Vadodara campus of the Gujarat Kendriya Vishwavidyalaya (Central University of Gujarat), which has been operating from a temporary campus in Gandhinagar since 2009. PM Modi will return to his home state for the second time in eight days. On June 10, he paid a visit to the state.
Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh will have elections later this year.
