NE NEWS SERVICE
MADURAI, APR 1
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday visited the famous Meenakshi Amman temple in the temple town and offered prayers.
Modi was clad in the traditional ”veshti” (dhoti), shirt and ”angavastram” during his visit, the Tamil Nadu BJP said on its official Twitter handle.
பிரதமர் மோடி சாமி தரிசனம்!
மதுரை மீனாட்சி அம்மன் கோவிலில் பிரதமர் திரு.@narendramodi அவர்கள் வேட்டி, சட்டை அணிந்து பாரம்பரிய முறையில் சாமி தரிசனம்.
மீனாட்சி அம்மன் கோயிலுக்கு வந்த பிரதமர் திரு.நரேந்திர மோடி அவர்களுக்கு பூரண கும்ப மரியாதை!@blsanthosh @JPNadda @Murugan_TNBJP pic.twitter.com/NuSDjKzsWr
— BJP Tamilnadu (@BJP4TamilNadu) April 1, 2021
It also shared pictures of Modi, here to address an NDA poll rally on Friday, being received by temple priests who accorded ”poorna kumbha” honour to him.
The PM travelled to the temple by road. Modi is scheduled to address public meetings in Madurai and Kanyakumari on April 2 in support of NDA candidates.
Elections to 234 Assembly seats in Tamil Nadu are slated on April 6 and the BJP is facing the polls in alliance with the ruling AIADMK. BJP is also contesting the Kanyakumari Lok Sabha bypoll, necessitated due to the death of Congress MP H Vasantha Kumar, who died of COVID-19, last year. BJP leader and former Union Minister Pon Radhakrishnan is the party candidate for the bypoll.
