All you want to know about Narendra Modi’s Mumbai Mahagarjana rally

All you want to know about Narendra Modi's Mumbai Mahagarjana rally


Mumbai, 21 December 2013

Major local railway stations in Mumbai will witness heavy rush on Sunday, December 22nd due to Narendra Modi’s ‘Mahagarjana Rally’ rally at the Metropolitan Region Development Authority grounds in Bandra Kurla Complex.

As many as 44 trains including 12 trains in central railway section, 10 in western railway section among others will carry participants of Narendra Modi’s rally today and tomorrow. Each train will have 18 coaches with capacity of 2200 to 2500 passengers. The trains will terminate at Dadar, bandra, Kurla, CST, Thane, Mumbai Central stations.

In another development, household women karyakartas and volunteers of BJP are preparing five lakh food packets of thepla and pickle for participants of rally under the leadership of city president Ashish Shelar, organising general secretary Sunil Karjatkar and Yogesh Sagar, BJP MLA from Mumbai.

According to Maharashtra BJP spokesperson Avdhut Vagh, this rally is limited to booth workers of party’s Maharashtra unit. 87,000 polling booths in-charges of party and five to ten karyakartas with each of them will form major part of the rally. However, businessmen and consulates are given special invitations. Also 10,000 chaiwalas are invited to the rally. Each party man and chaiwala is given identity card. Even Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh will carry identity cards while attending rally. Other participants of rally have registered online and they are invited via e-mail.

More than 8,000 policemen from the city will be on vigil on the roads and vantage points. 10 fire engines, 10 to 15 ambulances will be stationed outside the rally premises and 30 beds have been kept on standby at the nearby Bhabha Hospital in case of any mishap.

More than 2,000 traders of APMC market in Mumbai are going to attend the rally with family. Diamond traders have also registered their participation. Traders from Bombay Iron Market and other markets will also attend the rally. Thousands of doctors have been called to attend the rally, thousands of lawyers have been called and thousands of small and medium businessmen have been asked to be there. Party has special focus on youth of Mumbai and Maharashtra while organizing this rally.

The rally is scheduled to be held at 12.05 p.m.

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