Sagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Saturday lay the muse stone for a Rs 100-crore temple devoted to 14th century mystic poet and social reformer Sant Ravidas in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district, the place he may also tackle a public assembly, a state BJP minister stated. This will likely be PM’s second go to to the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP)-ruled state, the place meeting polls are due by the year-end, in simply over a month. On July 1, Modi interacted with tribal leaders, ladies who had been members of self-help teams and younger soccer gamers at Pakaria village in Shahdol district.
“Modiji will arrive in Khajuraho from New Delhi and take a helicopter to succeed in the Badtuma space in Sagar district round 2 pm to put the muse stone for a temple (devoted to Sant Ravidas) and a museum developing at a price Rs 100 crore,” MP Cooperative and Public Companies Minister Arvind Bhadoria instructed PTI over the telephone on Friday.
Half an hour later, he’ll attain the venue of the general public assembly close to the Dhana airstrip, about 20 km from Badtuma, stated Bhadoria, who can be the guardian minister of Sagar district positioned in north-east Madhya Pradesh. The BJP is anticipating as much as 2 lakh folks to attend the PM’s rally and the muse laying ceremony for the temple devoted to Sant Ravidas, who enjoys a nationwide following, particularly amongst a piece of Dalits.
The 2 programmes may also mark the end result of the ruling celebration’s ongoing ‘Samrasta (concord) Yatras’, seen as an try by the saffron outfit to succeed in out to Dalits forward of the essential polls. “5 such yatras began from completely different components of the state on July 25. The individuals are bringing handful of soil from 53,000 villages and water from 315 water our bodies, together with sacred rivers. The yatra will attain Sagar on August 11 night,” Bhadoria stated.
Between 1.50 lakh and a couple of lakh individuals are anticipated on the rally and the muse laying operate, he stated. The BJP has taken out the yatras to attach with completely different sections of society, particularly Dalits. MP has 35 meeting seats, of the overall 230, reserved for Scheduled Castes and of those, the BJP received 18 within the final elections, whereas the Congress bagged 17. The saffron celebration is making makes an attempt to strengthen its base amongst Dalits.
A while again, the Shivraj Singh Chouhan authorities constructed a Rs 3.5-crore Sant Ravidas Temple within the holy city of Maihar in Satna district. Dalit followers of Sant Ravidas, one of the crucial famend figures of the bhakti motion in medieval India, type the biggest chunk of the SC inhabitants within the state. The BJP had put up a superb present within the 2018 polls within the impoverished Bundelkhand area which consists of six districts – Sagar, Chattarpur, Tikamgarh, Niwari, Damoh and Panna – and accounts for 26 meeting seats.
Within the final meeting polls, the BJP received 15 seats in Bundelkhand, whereas the Congress needed to take care of 9. One seat every went to the Samajwadi Social gathering and Bahujan Samaj Social gathering. In Sagar district, which has eight seats, the BJP received six and the Congress two in 201