BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi reached Patna on Friday night. He is visiting the city for the second time in a week to meet the families of the six serial blasts' victims in different districts on Saturday, a party leader said on Friday.
Modi took a chartered plane from Pune and reached Patna at 11 pm on Friday. He is staying at the VVIP guest house as a state guest, BJP national general secretary Dharmendra Pradhan told reporters.
He will board a helicopter on Saturday morning to visit the native villages of all six Patna serial blasts victims in Patna, Kaimur, Gopalganj, Supaul, Begusarai and Nalanda districts, Pradhan said.
Modi will meet the grieving families to express his personal condolences to them for the death of their kins in the serial blasts during BJP's 'Hunkar Rally' in the state capital on October 27 last, and will hand over a cheque of Rs five lakh to the families, he said.
The Gujarat Chief Minister's whirlwind tour will begin at 7 am in Patna on Saturday and end at 3 pm in Nalanda district, the BJP leader said. Incidentally, Nalanda is the native district of Modi's Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar.
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