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Prime Minister Narendra Modi
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Friday shared pictures of himself spending clip connected the banks of the Hooghly stream successful Kolkata and taking a vessel ride.In the visuals shared by the Prime Minister, helium is seen seated connected a woody vessel with a camera successful hand, with the Vidyasagar Setu disposable successful the background.
PM Modi connected Hooghly river
"For each Bengali, the Ganga occupies a precise peculiar place. One tin accidental that the Ganga flows done the psyche of Bengal. Her divine waters transportation the timeless tone of an full civilisation. This greeting successful Kolkata, I spent immoderate clip connected the banks of the Hooghly river, an accidental to explicit gratitude to Maa Ganga," PM Modi said successful a station connected X."Also had the accidental to conscionable boatmen, whose hardworking quality is admirable and greeting walkers.
On the Hooghly, reiterated our committedness to enactment towards the improvement of West Bengal and the prosperity of the large Bengali people," helium added.
The sojourn comes amid ongoing governmental enactment successful the state. On Thursday, PM Modi addressed a rally successful Krishnanagar up of the adjacent signifier of the assembly elections. He besides visited Belur Math, wherever helium offered prayers.Polling for the assembly elections concluded astatine 6 p.m. connected Thursday.
West Bengal recorded a elector turnout of 91.91% successful Phase I, higher than Tamil Nadu’s 84.80%, according to information from the Election Commission of India.The BJP is aiming to unseat the ruling Trinamool Congress successful Bengal. Calling the precocious turnout an "overwhelming mandate for change," PM Modi said May 4, the counting day, would people the "expiry" of the TMC’s “15-year-old syndicate strategy and maha jungle raj” successful the state. Chief curate Mamata Banerjee, however, said the polling trends truthful acold bespeak the TMC is "already successful a presumption to win," with the enactment projecting triumph successful 125–134 of the 152 constituencies. Counting of votes volition instrumentality spot connected May 4.
