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PM Modi arrives at Kanniyakumari’s Vivekananda Memorial ahead of meditation


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Kanniyakumari, May 30, 2024: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will begin a 45-hour-long meditation session at the famous Vivekananda Rock Memorial in Tamil Nadu’s Kanniyakumari, India’s southernmost tip.

PM Modi’s spiritual retreat comes at the end of campaigning for the Lok Sabha election. He will meditate for nearly 45 hours from the evening of May 30 until the evening of June 1 at the Dhyan Mandapam, the place where spiritual leader Swami Vivekananda meditated 131 years ago.

 

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The Prime Minister headed straight to Bhagavathi Amman temple after arriving in Kanniyakumari on Thursday evening.

PM Modi is known to undertake spiritual journeys at the end of election campaigns. In 2019, he visited Kedarnath, and in 2014 he visited Shivaji’s Pratapgarh.

The Lok Sabha election is being held in seven phases beginning on April 19, and the results will be out on June 4. PM Modi and the BJP hope to return to power with a performance exceeding their count in 2019.


Courtesy: India Today