5th March Big Day! PM Modi’s Odisha Visit Coinciding With Biju Jayanti Triggers Speculations

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be coming to Odisha in the first week of March, informed BJP's co-in-charge for Odisha, Lata Usendi on Thursday. Usendi informed that the Prime Minister will visit the state on March 5. The PM's visit holds significance ahead of the crucial Lok Sabha and Odisha Assembly elections. As per sources, the PM is likely to address a public meeting in Jajpur's Chandikhol and lay the foundation stone of several developmental projects. However, the programme schedule is yet to be finalised. The prime minister’s visit assumes significance amid demands to award Bharat Ratna to former Odisha chief minister Biju Patnaik. The speculations are rife as Prime Minister’s Odisha visit coincides with the birth anniversary of the tall man Biju Patnaik. Last time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had visited Odisha on February 3. The PM had inaugurated, dedicated to the nation and laid the foundation stone of multiple infrastructure projects worth more than Rs 68,000 crore during the public meeting in Sambalpur.