Modi in Udupi: Massive crowds greet PM at roadshow ahead of Gita recital event at Sri Krishna Mutt

Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Friday (November 28) held a roadshow successful Udupi up of the Laksha Kantha Gita Parayana programme. People gathered successful ample numbers connected either sides of the streets to greet the Prime Minister, waving tricolours. This is PM Modi’s archetypal sojourn to the city.

At the Sri Krishna Mutt, PM Modi volition enactment successful the Laksha Kantha Gita Parayana programme, a devotional gathering of astir 1,00,000 participants, including students, monks, scholars, and citizens from assorted walks of life, who volition recite the Bhagavad Gita successful unison. The programme has been organised by Sri Krishna Mutt and Paryaya Putthige Mutt.

Earlier successful the time Mr. Modi Mr. arrived astatine Mangaluru International Airport from wherever helium flew to Udupi successful a helicopter, earlier heading to the Mutt. Along the way, helium held a roadshow from Bannanje Narayana Guru Circle to Kalsanka.

The Prime Minister volition besides inaugurate the Suvarna Tirtha Mantapa, located successful beforehand of the Krishna sanctum, and dedicate the Kanaka Kavacha (golden cover) for the ineffable Kanakana Kindi, a ineffable model done which the saint Kanakadasa is believed to person had the divine darshan of Bhagwan Krishna.

Later, helium volition question to Goa, wherever astatine astir 3:15 p.m., helium volition sojourn Sri Samsthan Gokarn Partagali Jeevottam Mutt connected the juncture of ‘Sardha Panchashatamanotsava’, the 550th-year solemnisation of the mutt.

Sri Krishna Mutt was established implicit 800 years agone by Sri Madhwacharya, the laminitis of the Dvaita doctrine of Vedanta.

According to the elder pontiff of Putthige Mutt and Paryaya seer Sugunendra Tirtha, earlier Mr. Modi had visited Sri Krishna Mutt during Sugunendra Tirtha’s erstwhile paryaya word erstwhile Mr. Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat.