PM Modi Mathura Visit: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on Mathura tour today. This time he will participate in Braj Mahotsav. Along with this, PM Modi is going to visit Shri Krishna’s birthplace temple. Interestingly, he will be the first Prime Minister of the country to visit this temple while in office. Till now no Prime Minister of the country has visited this temple during his tenure.
PM Modi’s program
After reaching Mathura, PM Modi is scheduled to go to the Railway Ground at Dhauli Pyau where he has to participate in the birth anniversary celebrations of devotee Mirabai. In this program, film actress and Mathura MP Hema Malini will stage a dance drama based on the life of Meera Bai.
In the presence of PM Modi, a five-minute documentary based on Shri Krishna devotee Mirabai will also be shown. Modi is scheduled to stay at the Mirabai Jayanti celebrations for about three hours. After this he will leave for Delhi late in the evening. Although PM Modi will be in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, but the political implications of his visit and participation in Mirabai Jayanti celebrations are also being explored.
Political meaning of PM’s visit
Actually, Mathura is also close to the border of Rajasthan where assembly elections are being held. Today is also the last day of campaigning for Rajasthan elections. The election campaign for 199 seats of Rajasthan will end at 5 pm. After the campaign is over, PM Modi will be in Mathura bordering the state and the program he will attend is being considered as a clear message for Rajasthan.
The program is of Mirabai’s birth anniversary and Shri Krishna devotee Meera is from Rajasthan. Mirabai was born in Kudki village in Pali district of Rajasthan and married into the Sisodia dynasty of Mewar. Mirabai is a devotee of Shri Krishna and thus fits perfectly into the Hindutva mold of the Bharatiya Janata Party. There is also discussion that PM Modi can also issue a postal stamp in the memory of Shri Krishna devotee Mirabai.
