Modi retiring at 75? He is going super strong at 74, with 141 rallies & road shows in last 2 months

On Tuesday morning, the PM will file his nomination from Varanasi and proceed to do more public meetings during the day.

One hundred and forty-one rallies and road shows– this will be the number of public events Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended while campaigning for BJP in the last two months, by the time he filed his nomination from Varanasi for the third time on May 14. This translates to the 74-year-old leader attending nearly three public events daily, involving a travel of thousands of kilometres.

A sample of this would be seen on Sunday when the PM will do four rallies in West Bengal, followed by a roadshow in Patna. On Monday, he will participate in three rallies in Patna before flying to Varanasi where he will do a massive roadshow in the evening that could last over four hours. The BJP is planning a massive campaign around the roadshow ‘Hammar Modi, Hammar Kashi’.

On Tuesday morning, the PM will file his nomination from Varanasi and proceed to do more public meetings during the day. The Prime Minister’s campaign will continue till the end of May and which could touch a total of 180-190 events.

Age Just a Number for Modi

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said Modi will complete his third term in 2029 and will continue to lead the party and the country even ahead of it. “There was no confusion in the party over the same,” the Home Minister said.

This came after AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal claimed that Modi would be retiring at the age of 75 next year and would hand over the reins to Amit Shah. The Home Minister made it clear that there is no such age limit of 75 in the BJP’s constitution.

Big Roadshow in Offing

Home Minister Amit Shah is in Varanasi to oversee the arrangements for Prime Minister Modi’s roadshow and nomination process. Senior BJP leader Sunil Bansal has also been camping in Varanasi for many days. Sources said the Prime Minister is expected to visit the Kashi Vishwanath Temple and Kal Bhairav Temple during his two-day visit to Varanasi.

The diversity of India will be showcased on various stages on the route of the PM’s roadshow, with people from Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi, and other communities present to welcome Modi. During the roadshow, the PM will cover a five-kilometre stretch from the gate of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) to the Kashi Vishwanath corridor in approximately four hours.

The roadshow will have performances by various artists playing the Damru and Shankhs and BJP is arranging quintals of flower petals for the event.

Meanwhile, a list has been drawn up of probable proposers for PM’s nomination and four names will be finalised from it.