Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pay a visit to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh founder Dr KB Hedgewar's memorial in Nagpur on March 30 and lay the foundation stone of the extension building of Madhav Netralaya Premium Centre.
The memorials of Hedgewar and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's second Sarsanghchalak MS Golwalkar are located at the Dr Hedgewar Smruti Mandir in Nagpur's Reshimbagh area.
Modi will visit these memorials on March 30, Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule told reporters in Nagpur on Thursday.
"PM Modi will be arriving here at 9.30 am. He will lay foundation stone of the extension building of Madhav Netralaya Premium Centre. He will also be visiting RSS Dr Hedgewar Smruti Mandir, Reshimbagh and Deekshabhoomi as well as the Solar Explosives plant," Bawankule said.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat will also attend the Madhav Netralaya Premium Centre programme.
The BJP is making large scale preparations to welcome Modi at 47 squares in the city, Bawankule said.
"This is the first time that a sitting prime minister will be visiting the Dr Hedgewar Smruti Mandir premises," a scholar well-versed with RSS history told PTI.
He said late BJP stalwart Atal Bihari Vajpayee visited the memorial in 2007, but he was not the prime minister at that time.
Modi earlier visited the memorial as a pracharak, but he is visiting the place for the first time after becoming the prime minister, the scholar said.
Modi will also visit Deekshabhoomi, where Dr B R Ambedkar embraced Buddhism along with thousands of his followers in 1956, Bawankule said.
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