Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be on a three-day visit to his home state Gujarat from today. He is expected to arrive in Ahmedabad tonight to take part in a host of programmes, including Lord Jagannath’s rath yatra in Ahmedabad on July 12.
To inaugurate a library and a civic centre, he would visit Bopal area of the city on July 11, which is part of his Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency,
He would also perform e-inauguration of other projects, including a water distribution project, a community hall and a ward office built by the civic authorities in and around Ahmedabad city.
Amit Shah is then expected to visit the nearby town of Sanand, which also falls in his constituency, to either launch or lay foundation stone for various projects, such as development of Sanand APMC, anganwadis, roads and smart classrooms.
Amit Shah would take part in ‘mangla aarti’ on July 12 at Lord Jagannath temple in Ahmedabad in the morning before the annual Rath Yatra takes off from the temple at Jamalpur area.
Later, he would visit Nardipur village of Gandhinagar district to launch the beautification work of a lake, which is spread across 72 hectares.
Later in the afternoon, to inaugurate a narcotics and psychotropic substances detection centre, Amit Shah is scheduled to visit the National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) campus in the state capital.