Mysuru: All roads in Mysuru literally led to Bengaluru this morning with over 5,000 people travelling in specially-arranged buses and vehicles to the capital city from Mysuru to hear Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is scheduled to address a massive rally at Palace Grounds in Bengaluru at 4 pm. Over one lakh people are expected to participate in the rally at ‘Krishna Vihar’ inside the sprawling Palace Grounds. It will be the PM’s first public rally after the Union Budget presented on Feb.1 and the rally is significant as he will sound the BJP bugle in the poll-bound Karnataka. His address will mark the conclusion of the saffron party’s 90-day Nava Karnataka Parivartana Yatra. Modi’s special plane will land in the HAL airport in the heart of the city at 3.30 pm. He will take a chopper to the venue and address the rally at around 4 pm. In the run-up to the State election, due in late April and early May this year, BJP conducted the Yatra, crisscrossing nearly all the 224 Assembly constituencies across the State after its National President, Amit Shah, flagged it off in November 2017. The Yatra, held with a view to bring BJP back to power in the southern State on the plank of transforming Karnataka through development, was led by its State President and former CM, B.S. Yeddyurappa. From Mysuru, over 5,000 people have left for the rally in over 80 buses that have been arranged by the City BJP unit. Of them, 72 buses are from KSRTC and eight are private buses. From Kodagu too, a sizable number of private buses have been arranged for the rally. This apart, from Mysuru, over 50 Tempo Travellers and maxi-cabs have been hired to ferry the crowd. Cars have also been arranged for senior party leaders and ticket aspirants.
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