24x7 PM Narendra Modi on way to Sindhri to revive fertiliser plant, and from there to Kolkata

Prime Minister Narendra Modi continued with his punishing schedule after completing the BJP's CEC meeting at 3.30 am today.

Updated on: Mar 1, 2024, 11:46:29 IST

By Shishir Gupta

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New Delhi: After completing the BJP's CEC meeting at 3.30 am today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi continued with his punishing schedule and headed for Sindhri in Jharkhand to revive a fertilizer plant. This will be the third fertilizer plant to be revived in the country after the Gorakhpur and Ramagundam plants.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi being received by BJP National President JP Nadda upon his arrival for the BJP's Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting to finalise the first list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. (PTI)

PM Modi has a packed schedule today. He will attend the event in Sindhri at 11 am. He will then rush to Dhanbad at 12.30 pm for a public meeting. At 3 pm, he will lay the foundation stones and inaugurate several projects in Arambagh. At 3.45, he will address a public meeting in the city.

The Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting was chaired by PM Modi. The agenda of the huddle was to finalise the first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections.

BJP president JP Nadda, home minister Amit Shah and representatives and chief ministers of 16 states were also present at the meeting.

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PM Modi, who arrived at the meeting late evening, received a warm welcome from Nadda.

Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, Rajasthan chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma and Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant also attended the meeting.

UP deputy chief ministers Brajesh Pathak and KP Maurya also attended the meeting.

Representatives from Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Tripura, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi, Goa, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Assam, Chandigarh and Telangana participated in the huddle.

The party will soon announce the first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, comprising 100 names. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah's names are expected to feature in the first list.

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PM Modi will also take part in several events on Saturday. He will lay the foundation stone, inaugurate and dedicate to the nation various projects at Krishnagar at 10.30 am. At 11.13, he will address a public meeting at the same venue.

At 2.30 pm, he will flag off several projects in Aurangabad. At 5.15 pm, he will start several development projects in Bihar's Begusarai.

PM Modi is BJP's most prominent campaigner and the party's face for the Lok Sabha elections.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Shishir Gupta
Shishir Gupta is Executive Editor at Hindustan Times and one of India's top journalists covering national security, strategic affairs, foreign policy and geopolitics. Over the past three decades, he has extensively reported on India's military, diplomatic and security landscape, covering every major conflict and national security challenge, from the 1999 Kargil War and the 2020 East Ladakh standoff to Operation Sindoor in 2025. He has also covered major terror attacks, including the IC-814 hijacking, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the 2025 Pahalgam terror strike, along with numerous Pakistan-backed terrorist incidents in the Kashmir Valley and across India. He has reported on national and state elections for more than three decades. A recognised authority on strategic affairs, Gupta has covered India's nuclear programme since the Pokhran-II (Shakti series) tests in May 1998 and has written extensively on global nuclear issues, Indian diplomacy and the country's expanding global outreach. He has also reported widely on international conflicts and terrorism, with a special focus on the Indian subcontinent. Gupta has interviewed Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than four times, including Modi's first interview with the print media after becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. His other interviews include three with the Dalai Lama, as well as conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, S. Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal. He is the author of Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within (Hachette, 2011) and Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and Indian Riposte (Hachette, 2014). He was awarded the Chevening-Wolfson Joint Scholarship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998 and participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US State Department in 2006. He received the Ben Gurion Prize from Israel in 2011 and the K. Subrahmanyam Prize for Strategic Studies in 2015 from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA). Since 2024, he has hosted Point Blank, Hindustan Times' weekly YouTube show on global geopolitics.Read More

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