New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday performed a mega roadshow in Mysuru and winded up his whirlwind two-day marketing campaign tour of Karnataka throughout which he addressed six public rallies. Amid the fanfare surrounding the roadshow, there was a short scare when a cell phone was thrown by a girl, stated to be a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) employee, in direction of the prime minister who was standing within the car. The incident passed off when PM Modi was waving at individuals gathered on the highway because the car traversed town.
The cell phone landed on the bonnet of the car after it was flung by the girl and this didn’t go unnoticed by the Prime Minister who indicated the item to the Special Protection Group (SPG) sleuths answerable for his safety throughout public occasions.
#WATCH | Security breach seen throughout Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s roadshow, a cell phone was thrown on PM’s car. More particulars awaited. pic.twitter.com/rnoPXeQZgB
— ANI (@ANI) April 30, 2023
The police stated that the telephone was hurled out of ‘pleasure’ by a girl BJP employee and that she had no ‘in poor health intention’.
“In the excitement (of the event), it (phone) was thrown and she had no (ill) intention but we are trying to trace the lady because the phone was handed over to her by the SPG sleuths,” Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order), Alok Kumar advised information company PTI.
PM Modi flew into Mysuru from Beluru in Hassan district and mounted on a specifically designed car for his mega roadshow. Flanked by Mysuru MP Pratap Simha, former ministers KS Eshwarappa and SA Ramadas, the Prime Minister wore the normal Mysuru ‘Peta’ and a saffron scarf. He waved on the giant quantity of people that had gathered on either side of the highway.
BJP flags, festoons, and the Prime Minister’s posters and cutouts dotted the roads.
On Saturday, PM Modi held public conferences at Humnabad in Bidar district, district headquarter city of Vijayapura, Kudachi in Belagavi district, and a roadshow in Bengaluru, adopted by election rallies in Kolar metropolis, Channapatna in Ramanagara district and Belur in Hassan district on Sunday.
Glimpses from Kolar, Channapatna, Belur and Mysuru!#ManeMagaModi pic.twitter.com/mSB4tNBtKY
— BJP (@BJP4India) April 30, 2023
The ruling BJP is pulling out all stops to retain energy within the state which is seen as a gateway to the south for the saffron get together. It is locked in a tussle with the opposition Congress and the JD(S).
Karnataka will go to polls on May 10 and the outcomes shall be declared on May 13.
