Modi to interact with chowkidars, others through video-conferencing on March 31

Sandeep Rana
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, March 26

City residents, particularly chowkidars, and BJP workers will get a chance to interact with Prime Minister Narendra Modi through video-conferencing on March 31 during his nationwide outreach programme, “Main Bhi Chowkidar”.

The programme is expected to be organised in all 543 constituencies from where the NDA is contesting elections. The city party unit got the intimation today and it has started preparations. The party said about 500 people, including watchmen and party workers, will be part of the event.

“All 597 BJP booth samiti presidents will be invited to the event. It will be a two-way interaction through video-conferencing. Several places in the country have been selected to have a question-answer session with the PM,” said a leader while making preparations at the party office, Kamalam, in Sector 33 here.

Sources said people would be invited to the party office at 4.30 pm. The event will start at 5 pm. The PM will start addressing the gathering at 5:20 pm and will interact till 6 pm.

City BJP chief Sanjay Tandon said: “Yes, ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ event will be organised on March 31 where the PM will interact with people at the party office through video-conferencing.”

“It will help us connect with the people at the ground level and understand their concerns,” said a party leader.

The campaign gained momentum in Chandigarh when a day after Modi launched the “Main Bhi Chowkidar” campaign on social media, local BJP leaders, including MP Kirron Kher, city party president Sanjay Tandon and former MP Satya Pal Jain too prefixed ‘chowkidar’ to their names in their Twitter handles. Kher also held a ‘coffee with chowkidars’ event where she interacted with watchmen and shared their concerns.