Union Minister for Home and Cooperation Amit Shah will have a series of programmes in Karnataka on April 1, including a visit to the Siddaganga Mutt in Tumakuru and the BJP’s core committee meeting in the city. A day prior, on March 31, former Congress president and MP Rahul Gandhi is also visiting the mutt, a prominent centre for Veerashaiva-Lingayat community, to pay his respect to the late Shivakumara Swami.
Visits by Mr. Shah and Mr. Gandhi gain significance as both ruling BJP and the Congress are preparing for Assembly polls in the State scheduled next year.
Sharing Mr. Shah’s itinerary, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said that Mr. Shah would also lay the foundation stone for a medical college and attend a conference of cooperatives. The Union Minister, who would arrive in Bengaluru late on Thursday, would be visiting Siddaganga Mutt and Muddenahalli in Chickballapur the next day, before returning to the city.
