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Prime Minister Narendra Modi being felicitated by Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis, arsenic CM Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar look on. (Express record photograph by Sankhadeep Banerjee)
With the Haryana and Jammu & Kashmir Assembly elections done, the BJP has turned its attraction to Maharashtra. On Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi volition beryllium visiting the authorities for the 2nd clip wrong a fortnight, making halts successful the politically important regions of Vidarbha and Mumbai-Thane.
Like his September 20 visit, Modi volition beryllium unveiling mega infrastructure projects and pushing payment schemes during his Saturday visit. The travel volition see a circuit of the Jagdamba Mata Temple, Poharadevi, successful Washim, an important pilgrimage centre of the Banjara community, halts astatine samadhis of 2 section saints, and the inauguration of a ‘Banjara Virasat Museum’.
A nomadic tribe, the Banjaras fig implicit a crore, constituting a sizeable ballot slope successful parts of Vidarbha, North Maharashtra and Marathwada regions.
The BJP’s propulsion for the Banjara ballot follows the erosion of enactment for it among the Dalits and Kunbis. While the Congress successfully wooed the Dalits successful the Lok Sabha polls talking of a “threat to the Constitution”, the Kunbis are aggravated with the BJP-led Mahayuti authorities implicit the disorder connected the Maratha quota issue.
The BJP is hoping that the two-pronged strategy of pushing a improvement docket and balancing micro caste and assemblage interests volition assistance it successful the polls.
Vidarbha accounts for 62 of the 288 Assembly seats successful Maharashtra. In 2014, the enactment had astir swept Vidarbha, winning 44 of its seats, connected roadworthy to its Maharashtra win. In 2019, erstwhile the BJP could not get a elemental majority, its tally was 29 successful Vidarbha. Earlier, Union Home Minister Amit Shah began its bid of pre-poll Maharashtra predetermination meetings with Vidarbha.
The BJP has besides brought to Vidarbha a portion from Madhya Pradesh that successfully worked with erstwhile main curate and existent Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan during the authorities polls, which saw the BJP instrumentality to power. Sources said they person held interactions with section leaders crossed 11 districts successful Vidarbha and fixed their inputs to the cardinal canvass absorption squad connected drafting a segment-wise program to scope retired to radical successful the region, arsenic good arsenic to instrumentality populist schemes similar Ladli Bahin Yojna to the people.
The projects which Modi volition unveil successful Vidarbha see initiatives related to the cultivation and carnal husbandry sector, worthy astir Rs 23,300 crore. The PM volition besides disburse the 18th instalment of the PM-KISAN Samman Nidhi worthy astir Rs 20,000 crore to astir 9.4 crore farmers, and the 5th instalment of NaMo Shetkari Mahasanman Nidhi Yojana amounting to astir Rs 2,000 crore.
During his September visit, Modi had commemorated the archetypal day of ‘Vishwakarma Yojna’ successful Vidarbha by handing implicit indebtedness certificates to 18 beneficiaries successful 18 antithetic trades. He besides inaugurated a PM MITRA Park for the textile sector.
Mumbai with 36 seats and Thane with 24 marque up different 60 seats. The PM’s propulsion present – connected the backmost of important infrastructure projects nether the BJP authorities successful 2014-19 – is important arsenic Eknath Shinde of the Shiv Sena considers the portion its bastion.
On Saturday, Modi is to inaugurate different projects, including respective involving the Mumbai Metro.
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