PM Narendra Modi not coming to Assam on Jan 10 to open ‘Khelo India’

GUWAHATI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi would not be coming to Guwahati on January 10 to declare open the “Khelo India” Games at the state capital due to “lack of time”, a senior BJP leader said on Wednesday.

“It (the visit) is cancelled,” Assam BJP spokesman Dewan Dhruba Jyoti Maral told IANS.

Maral said that the State government had approached the Prime Minister, but the visit did not happen as Modi could not find time.

“The State government approached him. But he cannot give time,” he said.

State Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, however, said that the State government had not received any programme of the Prime Minister at the first place.

“We had not received any programme of PM. So without confirmation at the first place how can there be cancellation?” said Sarma. (IANS)

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