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Jharkhand News: 1st time a Prime Minister to hold two rallies in Dhanbad on same day

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Jharkhand News: 1st time a Prime Minister to hold two rallies in Dhanbad on same day

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Dhanbad, Feb 28: The visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Dhanbad on March 1 will create a new record.

This will be the first time a Prime Minister will hold two-rallies in a district of the state same day.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to arrive here on March 1 to inaugurate Hindustan Urvarak and Rasayan Limited (HURL) Sindri. He will inaugurate the plant at 11 am and hold a public rally there. However, officials said it will be a small rally inside HURL premises.

After the inauguration of HURL, the Prime Minister will arrive in Dhanbad city by a chopper and again hold a public rally at Barbadda airstrip in the afternoon.

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Octogenarian senior Congress leader and former MLA Mannan Mallick recalled that in his knowledge no Prime Minister of India had addressed two rallies on the same day in a district during undivided Bihar and after the formation of separate Jharkhand state so far.

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Barring Pt Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Chandrashekhar, Atal Bihari Vajpayee,  Manmohan Singh visited Dhanbad district as Prime Minister but no one addressed two rallies on the same day in this district.

The March 1st visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the 3rd tour of Koylanchal after assuming the office. After becoming Prime Minister he arrived here on May 25, 2018, to lay the foundation of HURL Sindri and addressed a public rally at Baliapur air strip.

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He again arrived in 2019 during the Lok Sabha election and addressed a poll rally at the Barbadda air strip.  On March 1, 2024, he will also address the rally at Barbadda.

Former district president of BJP Hari Prakash Latta said that the party workers have been directed to be present at the Dhanbad Barbadda air strip rally only. The Sindri HURL plant rally is for limited persons.

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