PM Modi in Dehradun. Will participate in Yoga alongwith 50 thousand people on 21st June

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today reached Dehradun in an India Airforce plane which landed at the Jolly Grant Airport where he was received by the Uttarakhand Governor Dr. K. K. Paul, chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, Haidwar MP and former CM Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, BJP’s national secretary Tirath Singh Rawat,the newly elected Rajya Sabha MP Anil Baluni, MP from Tehri Garhwal Maharani Lakshmi Shah,State education minister Dhan Singh Rawat, UK BJP chief Ajay Bhatt n others.

Prime minister Modi will stay in Rajya Bhawan, Dehradun, tonight and will participate in Yoga exercise alongwith fifty thousand participants at the sprawling lavish lush green ground of the Forest Research Institute on the ocassion of International Yoga Day at 8.30 in the morning.

He will also address the gathering comprising of eminent yoga teachers and thousands of participants. He will be back to Delhi in the evening. Those who’ll share the dias with the prime minister are, the Uttarakhand Governor Dr. K. K. Paul, Chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, union Ayush minister and Ayush minister of Uttarakhand Dr. Harak Singh Rawat.

The BJP’s national chief Amit Shah is also visiting the state capital Dehradun on 24th June in the context of preparations for the 2019 general elections. The BJP chief will interact with party leaders, chief minister and ministers of hiscabinet including rank and file of the saffron party and will educate the BJP workers to strengthen the organisation at the booth level. He will also assess the performance of the state government and address a press conference as well.

It may be recalled that prime minister Narendra Modi has special kind of spiritual relationship and affinity with Uttarakhand. During the eighties (1980) when he was nt holding any prominent party post and was a common worker he very often visited Kedarnath for Lord Kedar’s obiesance. In 1980 he meditated for one and a half month in a cave in Garud Chatti near Kedarnath.
After and before becoming the Prime minister he visited Garhwal Srinagar to campaign for the party candidates and twice at Kedarnath.

Last year he visited Dehradun to inaugurate the over ambitious eight lane all weather road project the work on which is in full swing at the staggering cost of Rs. 12000 crores, entirely a union government’s project.