PM Modi visits Assam tea garden, plucks leaves, takes selfies with workers; see pics

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Wednesday visited a beverage plot successful Dibrugarh, Assam, up of 2 nationalist rallies successful the poll-bound state.He described beverage arsenic the "soul of Assam." “Tea is the psyche of Assam! The beverage from present has reached crossed the world.

This greeting successful Dibrugarh, I visited a beverage plot and interacted with the women moving here. It was a precise memorable experience,” PM Modi wrote connected X, sharing photos from the visit.

He added, “We are precise arrogant of the efforts of each beverage plot family. Their hard enactment and perseverance person enhanced Assam’s pride. Here are immoderate much glimpses from a beverage plot successful Dibrugarh."

PM Modi besides shared a selfie with women moving successful the beverage garden.

According to the Assam State Portal, the authorities produces astir 630–700 cardinal kg of beverage annually, accounting for implicit fractional of India’s full output. PM Modi’s rallies successful Assam As per his itinerary, the premier curate volition archetypal code a rally astatine Gogamukh successful Dhemaji astatine 11 am, followed by a 2nd nationalist gathering successful Biswanath territory astir 1 pm. Senior BJP leaders and authorities ministers are expected to be some events.

At the archetypal rally, the PM volition run for BJP candidates Ranoj Pegu and Naba Kumar Doley from the Dhemaji and Dhakuakha assembly constituencies. At the 2nd rally successful Behali, helium volition enactment enactment campaigner and erstwhile curate Pallab Lochan Das. All 126 assembly seats successful Assam volition spell to polls connected April 9, with ballot counting scheduled for May 4, alongside counting successful Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala, and the Union territory of Puducherry, wherever elections volition beryllium held astir the aforesaid period. The BJP-led NDA has been successful powerfulness successful Assam since 2016, erstwhile the enactment won its archetypal assembly elections successful the state