Lok Sabha Election 2024: Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a road show in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu on Monday. A huge crowd gathered in the road show. Meanwhile, people standing on both sides of the road also raised slogans of Modi…Modi. BJP workers welcomed PM Modi by playing traditional music. During his visit to Coimbatore, PM Modi also paid floral tributes to the photographs of 58 people killed in the 1998 serial bomb blasts. Let us tell you, this road show took place amidst tight police security, a few days after the Madras High Court gave permission to the program. Initially the police had refused permission for the road show citing the communally sensitive nature of the area and the ongoing examination among other reasons.
People showered flowers on PM Modi
The dates of Lok Sabha elections have been announced. Political parties are trying to woo more and more people. In this series, PM Modi is on a tour of South India. Today i.e. on Monday, during the road show in Coimbatore, the people present there showered flowers on PM Modi. PM Modi greeted people riding in an open vehicle. Along with showering flowers, people also raised slogans in his support. Some people were seen dancing enthusiastically during the road show. This is the first time that the Prime Minister has done a road show in Coimbatore. During the road show, BJP supporters once again raised slogans like Modi, we want Modi.
Many people standing in queues on the streets held lotus flowers in their hands to welcome Modi and raised slogans of “Bharat Mata ki Jai”. Modi’s vehicle moved slowly on the approximately 2.5 km long route from Saibaba Colony to RS Puram in Coimbatore city and during this he accepted the greetings of the people by waving hands.
Floral tributes to the photographs of those killed in the bomb blast
At the end of the road show, Prime Minister Modi paid floral tributes to the photographs of those killed in the bomb blast that rocked the city in 1998. The blasts took place on 14 February 1998, a few hours before an election rally of senior BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani was to be held. 58 people were killed in this incident while more than 100 were injured. BJP Tamil Nadu unit president K. Annamalai, Coimbatore South MLA and BJP Mahila Morcha national president Vanathi Srinivasan and Union Minister of State L. Murugan was with Modi.
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