Ahead of Assembly Elections…
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah is all set to visit the communally sensitive coastal region of Karnataka today, (February 11).
Ahead of the assembly elections, he will participate in the golden jubilee celebrations of the Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Co-operative Limited (Campco) in Puttur town in Dakshina Kannada district.
Though it is an official visit by the union home minister, Bharatiya Janata Party is taking advantage of his visit to gain political mileage ahead of the elections later this year and has made all the preparations to welcome Amit Shah.
He will also inaugurate the Bharat Mata Mandir built by Dharmashree Pratisthan at Hanumagiri. It will be the second temple in south India for Bharat Mata after the one which is in Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu.
Mr. Shah will garland the statue of Bharat Mata and later on he will pay floral tributes at the Amar Jawan Jyoti in Puttur. He will also visit Hanumagiri temple at Ishwaramangala and offer worship.
The BJP is planning to use the visit as the start of their election campaign in that district.
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