Today in Politics: PM Modi set to kick off LS poll campaign, from addressing first-time voters to holding Bulandshahr rally

Three days after inaugurating the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to launch his campaign for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls on Thursday.

PM Modi will virtually interact with first-time voters across 5,000 locations in the country on Thursday, which marks the National Voters Day. The programme, Namo Nav Matdata conference, being organised by the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the youth wing of the BJP, hopes to reach one crore first-time voters between the age group of 18 and 25 years.

“The Namo Nav Matdata conference will take place tomorrow (Thursday) at 5,000 places in India. Registrations have been done for the youths to interact with Modiji. Lakhs of youth will interact directly with the PM tomorrow. This is the first time that a PM is interacting with first-time voters at this scale. One crore first-time voters will be touched,” BJYM national president and BJP MP Tejaswi Surya said on Wednesday.

Underlining the importance of the youth vote bank for the BJP, Surya said, “Youth voters played a major role in the election and re-election of Modiji. There are many youth-centric policies of this government. The new education policy has come after 36 years. There are new IIMs and IITs. Digital India, Start-up India, aerospace, the drone sector are growing, and the private sector has also been involved. Niti Aayog stated that around 25 crore people have come out of poverty.”

PM Modi is also set to inaugurate development projects worth more than Rs 19,100 crore in Bulandshahr in western Uttar Pradesh, where he will also address a rally. These projects include a 173-km-long double-line electrified section between New Khurja and New Rewari, a fourth rail line connecting Mathura-Palwal and