3 years of Modi sarkar: PM in Assam, Shah in Delhi to kickoff celebrations

Vibha Sharma

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, May 25

The Narendra Modi government at the Centre will complete three years in office on Friday.

The PM will mark the day in Assam by inaugurating India’s longest bridge — the Dhola-Sadiya bridge over the Lohit, a tributary of Brahmaputra. In Delhi, initiating the 20-day celebrations, BJP chief Amit Shah will highlight the government’s “achievements” of the past three years.

The Prime Minister, while addressing the nation from Guwahati, is expected to do the same. He is also expected to use the occasion to send a “strong message to Pakistan”. After the Army’s “punitive fire assaults” on its positions across the LoC following the repeated infiltrations by terrorists aided by the Pakistan army along with fomenting unrest in Kashmir, this is the first time he would be addressing such a rally.

Alongside, BJP leaders say the presence of the PM at the inauguration of the Dhola-Sadiya bridge will act as “a message to China” while filling the huge connectivity gap in the region for civilians and ensuring easy access to the Indian Armed Forces in the hitherto inaccessible regions.

The 9.15 km bridge will connect Dhola on the Brahmaputra’s south bank to Sadiya on the north and is longer than the Bandra-Worli Sea Link (5.6 km). Aimed at improving the road connectivity between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, the bridge will ensure swift mobilisation and movement of troops and heavy equipment to the border areas in the northeast.

From May 26 to June 15, the BJP has planned an extensive programme, including “Modi fest” and “Jann ki Baat”, to connect with people, especially youth on achievements and programmes of the Modi government. Spread across 900 cities in the country, BJP’s 330 MPs, 11 Chief Ministers, five Deputy Chief Ministers, ministers in state governments and organisational functionaries, will hold rallies, visit colonies populated by the poor and meet local intelligentsia.