PM Modi to visit Naxal heartland today

May 09, 2015 09:36

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit the Naxal-affected Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region today. This will be Modi's first visit to the region after becoming the prime minister last year.

Modi is scheduled to inaugurate two projects there worth a total of Rs 24,000 crore -- a steel plant in Dantewada's Dilmili village and the second phase of a 140 km railway line from Raoghat to Jagdalpur.

Modi will be the first prime minister after Rajiv Gandhi to visit to region to inaugurate development projects. Other prime ministers since Gandhi have visited the region, but for election campaigns.

The Naxals are protesting Modi's visit. On Friday, they chopped a tree and used it to block a road, put up posters registering their protest, and hung effigies of Modi and Chief Minister Raman Singh.

The Congress, meanwhile, alleged that the real reason for the PM's visit is to give corporates access to the minerals-rich Bastar region, and not to enquire about the welfare of its people.

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