Saharanpur, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a huge public meeting in Saharanpur at around 10 am on Saturday. Preparations for his meeting have been completed by this evening. SPG officers held a meeting with local police-administrative officials and finalized the security arrangements for the rally.
Along with the Prime Minister, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini and Rashtriya Lok Dal President Jayant Chaudhary will also be present on the stage. State BJP President Chaudhary Bhupendra Singh reached here late Friday evening. This election meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be his second meeting in Western Uttar Pradesh. On 31 March, he launched the first phase of election campaign from Meerut. BJP had fielded Raghav Lakhanpal Sharma from Saharanpur seat for the third consecutive time. In 2014, Raghav Lakhanpal Sharma had defeated Congress candidate Imran Masood. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BSP-SP alliance candidate Fazalur Rehman Qureshi defeated Raghav Lakhanpal. Imran Masood and Raghav Lakhanpal are face to face again in this election. This time Fazalur Rehman Qureshi has been out of the election field after being denied ticket from BSP. BSP has made Zilla Panchayat member Majid Ali its candidate in his place. Voting for Saharanpur seat will be held on April 19 and the election campaign will stop at 5 pm on April 17, the day of Ram Navami. Till now, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has campaigned in favor of the BJP candidate. The election campaign of Congress candidate Imran Masood and BSP candidate Majid Ali has not even formally started yet. For the security of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting to be held on April 6 at Radha Swami Satsang Center on Delhi Road in Saharanpur, such arrangements have been made that the security of the Prime Minister will be transformed into a completely impenetrable fort. The synagogue has been declared a no-flying zone. There will also be a ban on flying drones and kites etc. Three thousand security personnel will be deployed for security. Eight company PAC will be deployed at the meeting venue. 100 traffic policemen will handle the traffic arrangements. 20 Additional Superintendents of Police, 30 Deputy Superintendents of Police, 100 Police Inspectors, 200 Inspectors, 1000 Diwans and constables will be deployed. Saharanpur candidate Raghav Lakhanpal Sharma, Kairana candidate Pradeep Chaudhary will also be present on the Prime Minister's platform. BJP workers are working whole-heartedly to make this rally a success.