Modi’s Bangalore rally:Rs 10 donation for Sardar statue, unprecedented security arrangements

Bangalore, 15 November 2013

The BJP will donate the revenue generated from selling Rs 10 tickets for Narendra Modi’s’s 17th November Bangalore rally to the cause of construction of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s statue of unity. According to former minister and MLA CT Ravi this is voluntary contributions from party workers and supporters.

Meanwhile, a team of Gujarat police landed in the city on Wednesday evening and did a recce of Palace Grounds, the venue of the rally. The reconnaissance team would also visit the Poornapragna Vidyapeeta, near Vidyapeeta Circle, the venue of the proposed meeting of Modi and Viveshveshateertha of Pejawar Mutt.

In another development the BJP on its official twitter page said:“For the first time you can contribute to NaMo speech…please send issues/agendas which Modi ji should touch upon during his Nov 17 rally.”

The city police are doing random background checks of people who have taken up houses on rent in and around Bangalore in the last two months to verify tenants’ antecedents.

Hotels, lodges, restaurants, hostels and paying guest accommodations in and around the city are under scrutiny

Apart from an eye on the entry and exit points at public places, the city police have also taken up precautionary measures and rounded up anti-social elements and kept them under preventive detention. Other elements, who are reformed, have been summoned for being questioned about their activities.

Police personnel on duty at Palace grounds would also be issued special passes.These are required even for the police to enter the venue.