Home Min Amit Shah to visit Maha for two days
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be in Maharashtra over the weekend for a two-day visit during which will pay tribute to B R Ambedkar in Nagpur, interact with children of soldiers martyred in Jammu and Kashmir and address a rally in Kolhapur, officials said.
On the first day of his tour beginning Saturday, Amit Shah will pay tribute to Ambedkar at Deeksha Bhoomi, where Ambedkar embraced
Buddhism with his followers, and lay a wreath at the memorial of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s founding ‘sarsanghachalak’ Keshav
Baliram Hedgewar at Reshim Bagh in Nagpur.
The home minister will also attend the celebration on the completion of 50 years of the Lokmat Group of
newspapers in the city, the officials said.
The same afternoon, Shah will attend a cooperation conference organised by the Dainik Sakal newspaper in Pune before interacting with the children of soldiers, policemen and civilians who were martyred in Jammu and Kashmir.
He will also attend a function to release the Marathi translation of book ‘Modi@20’ in Pune and subsequently offer prayers at the Omkareshwar temple in the city.
On February 19, the home minister will inaugurate the first phase of the theme park Shiv Srishti created on the life of Shivaji Maharaj in Pune.
