As Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Maharashtra are reeling under a severe heatwave with temperatures ranging between 41 and 45 degrees Celsius, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has started holding four election events a day and travelling an average 3,500 kilometre every day.
On Monday, for instance, PM Modi has four scheduled events — one public meeting in Karnataka followed by three in Maharashtra. His day will start in Karnataka’s Bagalkote, followed by Maharashtra’s Solapur, Satara and Pune. Roughly, PM Modi is scheduled to travel more than 3,650 kilometre through the day. Among the four public meetings, the only one in the evening is that of Pune. The rest are taking place in sweltering afternoon, a time when the IMD has advised people from the heatwave affected states to avoid stepping out unless unavoidable.
On Sunday, PM Modi had four public meetings in Karnataka alone — in Belagavi, Uttar Kannada, Devanagere and Ballari. His first meeting was at 11 am and the last at 5 pm. As the sun was spitting fire in Uttar Kannada, the 73-year-old animatedly asked the crowd, “Those who rejected the invite for Ram Mandir, will the nation reject them or not? Will Karnataka reject them or not? Will you reject them or not?”
A while after, in Ballari, at his fourth rally on Sunday, he sounded as charged up when he mentioned how the BJP government ensured PFI members are behind jail and the recent blast at Bengaluru’s Rameshwaram Cafe. PM Modi roughly travelled 4,300 kilometre on Sunday.
Saturday was relatively easy with just two rallies in the evening — at Maharashtra’s Kohlapur and South Goa. Kohlapur is reeling under “excessive heat”.
A day before, on Friday, the Prime Minister addressed three rallies and took part in one roadshow spread across three states — West Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. His first event was as early as 10.45 am and the day concluded with a road show that started at 6.30 pm and went on for over an hour.
Modi started with West Bengal’s North Malda where he targeted the Mamata Banerjee government, followed by two consecutive rallies in Bihar — Araria and Munger — where he targeted Lalu Prasad Yadav’s RJD reminding people about “the dark ages of Lantern (electoral symbol of the RJD)”. At peak afternoon in Munger, Modi addressed a packed house, “Munger has been the biggest victim of the jungle Raj”.
By evening, he was in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly, where he travelled through the road, standing on top of a customised vehicle next to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, holding an LED Lotus — the electoral symbol of the BJP. Euphoric crowds waited for hours, armed with their smartphones. Having started his first rally before 11 in the morning, Modi didn’t let that affect Bareilly where he waved continuously at the crowds, attacking the Samajwadi Party and the Congress alliance.
Modi travelled more than 3,000 kilometre on Friday which was also the second phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha election 2024. If BJP sources are to be believed, the tempo of Modi’s everyday schedule is going to be more excruciating in the weeks ahead.
Check Lok Sabha Election 2024 Phase 3 Schedule, Key Candidates And Constituencies At News18 Website.
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