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Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will be accorded a "rousing welcome" by thousands of Bharatiya Janata Party workers when he arrives at Abu Road on the way to the temple town of Ambaji to launch the next leg of his Gujarat Gaurav Yatra on October 5, the BJP announced in Jaipur on Monday.
Modi will arrive from Gandhinagar by helicopter at the Abu Road air strip, where BJP workers from all parts of the desert state, led by the party's national treasurer, Ram Das Agrawal, will give him a rousing reception.
Modi will be taken round Abu Road town in a shobha yatra for which more than a hundred arches are being erected, Agrawal said. The procession will culminate in a public meeting on the outskirts of the town. Modi will address the meeting.
Party workers in Rajasthan will felicitate the Gujarat chief minister, already facing criticism from the Congress and other parties for his Gaurav Yatra, by presenting him with a turban and a sword. The Congress, which is in the opposition in Gujarat, rules Rajasthan.
Most of the party workers are likely to be gathered from Sirohi, Jalore, Pali, and Jodhpur districts. The show is being organised under the supervision of state BJP general secretary Om Prakash Mathur, on deputation from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
The party workers will then go to Ambaji, about 18km from Abu Road, to see Modi off at the Ambaji temple there.
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