PM Modi's rally in Jammu today: Five key political points ahead of 2024 Lok Sabha elections

Prime Minister Narendra Modi rally in Jammu on February 20 will be his third public event at the Maulana Azad Stadium since 2013.

will inaugurate various projects, including AIIMS, Jammu, world’s highest railway bridge over Chenab, and north India’s first river rejuvenation project — Devika river project — in Udhampur, apart from addressing the rally.

Way back in 2013, after the then was declared as BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi addressed the “Lalkar Rally" at Jammu's MA Stadium on December 1, 2013. The rally attended by over one lakh people is remembered as the biggest-ever political gathering in the history of Jammu and Kashmir. It was credited for BJP winning all three Lok Sabha seats in the region in 2014 elections, an all time high by the party. In the 1999 Lok Sabha elections BJP had won two Lok Sabha seats in the erstwhile state.

In that rally Modi had famously called for a general discussion over of the Indian constitution, which granted special status to the erstwhile state, and was revoked by his government on August 5, 2019. "Article 370 has become a shield and is being used as one. It has been armored with communal jewels and just because of this, a valid discussion on it is not happening. I want the experts of the Constitution to discuss it.? Shouldn't the injustice stop," Modi had said to his audience then," Modi had said then.

Addressing the youth, Modi had at the 2013 rally asked why J&K didn't have national institutions of learning like IITs and IIMs. Over ten years later, PM Modi will be inaugurating or laying the foundation stone of a few national-level educational institutions including IIM - Jammu.

Overall, PM Modi is slated to lay the foundation and inaugurate over 200