Today in Politics: Akhilesh set to join Rahul, Priyanka on Yatra’s final day in UP; PM Modi to unveil 5 AIIMS

Gujarat is set to get its first All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Rajkot with Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to inaugurate the facility along with four other AIIMS campuses on Sunday.

While the PM will dedicate to the nation the new AIIMS at Rajkot, he will also virtually inaugurate from there the

AIIMS campuses in Andhra Pradesh’s Mangalagiri, Punjab’s Bathinda, Uttar Pradesh’s Raebareli, and West Bengal’s Kalyani. The five super-speciality hospitals have been built by the Centre at a cost of Rs 6,300 crore, an official said.

While in Gujarat, Modi will also inaugurate the four-lane cable-stayed Sudarshan Setu bridge between Okha and Beyt Dwarka in Devbhumi Dwarka district apart from holding road shows and rallies in Rajkot and Jamnagar.

Modi will also inaugurate and perform ground-breaking for projects of Rs 48,000 crore of different state and Central departments. Of these, projects of Rs 35,700 crore are for Gujarat, while the remaining are for other states.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah is headed to Madhya Pradesh on Sunday to review the BJP’s preparation for the Lok Sabha polls. Shah will visit Gwalior, Khajuraho and Bhopal, and hold meetings with party functionaries and also address a public meeting, state unit chief V D Sharma said.

After a series of setbacks for the Opposition INDIA alliance, with the loss of key allies and failed seat-sharing talks in West Bengal and Punjab, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra will get a boost with Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav set to join it on Sunday – a day after All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra joined the Yatra as it resumed its journey from Moradabad for the march’s final leg in Uttar Pradesh.