THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Kerala yet again this Friday. On his fourth visit to the state this year, Modi will be campaigning in Palakkad for BJP candidate C Krishnakumar, the party’s state general secretary and a former deputy mayor of the city corporation.
While the prime minister is slated to hold a road show there, the BJP state leadership is also trying to get his time to campaign in Pathanamthitta for Anil Antony, the party candidate there, according to BJP sources.
It will be Modi’s first trip to Kerala after the announcement of the NDA candidate list for the Lok Sabha polls. “The BJP state leadership is eager to see Modi campaigning in Pathanamthitta. We are hopeful the PM will squeeze in the time,” a BJP source said.
The prime minister has been keen to visit the party’s ‘A plus’ constituencies, which has already seen him visiting Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam and Thrissur districts, the source pointed out.
Since the turn of the year, Modi first visited the state in January and attended a women’s conclave in Thrissur. He arrived in Thrissur again the same month to attend the marriage of BJP leader Suresh Gopi’s daughter at Guruvayur. Modi also found time to attend a road show in Kochi. His third visit was in February to attend the finale of BJP state president K Surendran’s padayatra at Thiruvananthapuram. He also inaugurated space infrastructure projects worth Rs 1,800 crore at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre during his visit there and bestowed ‘astronaut wings’ to four astronaut-designates.
Pathanamthitta in Focus?
According to BJP sources, the party state leadership is eager to see Modi campaigning in Pathanamthitta district and are hopeful that he will squeeze in the time