Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to clock up the air miles in the months leading up to the Lok Sabha polls later in the year, with trips scheduled for almost every State in India before mid-March.
After visits to Tamil Nadu, Lakshadweep and Gujarat, Prime Minister Modi will be visiting Maharashtra, followed by Bihar on January 13 and possibly Jharkhand following that.
Sources in the BJP said while the January 22 consecration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya was a major undertaking by the Sangh Parivar, the travel schedule would be going on side by side. The aim was to have Mr. Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president J.P. Nadda visit almost all the States before the announcement of poll dates.