PM Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Nagpur on Sunday, where he will pay tribute to the founding leaders of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at Smruti Mandir. His visit coincides with the RSS’s function marking the Gudi Padwa festival.
PM Modi will offer homage at the memorials of RSS founder KB Hedgewar and the organisation’s second Sarsanghchalak, MS Golwalkar, located at the Dr Hedgewar Smruti Mandir in Nagpur. He will also pay respects to BR Ambedkar at Deekshabhoomi, the site where Ambedkar embraced Buddhism along with thousands of his followers in 1956.
The Prime Minister is expected to lay the foundation stone for the Madhav Netralaya Premium Centre, an extension of the Madhav Netralaya Eye Institute and Research Centre. The facility will include a 250-bed hospital, 14 outpatient departments (OPDs), and 14 modular operation theatres.
PM Modi will visit the Solar Defence and Aerospace Limited’s ammunition facility, where he will inaugurate a newly constructed 1,250-metre-long and 25-metre-wide airstrip designed for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). He will also open the live munition and warhead testing facility for Loitering Munition and other guided munitions.
The PM’s convoy will include 20 special vehicles, including those connected to VIP protection and others having RCEID (radio controlled improvised explosive devices) jammer equipment. More than 5,000 police personnel from local units, Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad, Anti-Riot Squad and Quick Response Team have been deployed. A total of 900 traffic police officers will be manning the roads.
After Nagpur, the Prime Minister will visit Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh, where he will lay the foundation stone for several projects spanning the power, oil and gas, rail, road, education, and housing sectors.