With Chennai stumbling under the bang of cats and dogs rains, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached in Tamil Nadu’s capital on Monday. He will be present at the platinum jubilee celebrations of Tamil newspaper Daily Thanthi. Modi is also programmed to meet DMK patriarch and ex- Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi among other creams of the crop in the state.

National general secretary of the Saffron party BJP, P Muralidhar Rao, tweeted this morning, “During his visit to Tamil Nadu today, PM Sh Narendra Modi Ji will visit senior most leader from the state and former CM Sh M. Karunanidhi.”

The prime minister is also programmed to attend a number of events during the day.

Taking hoard of the state of affairs during TN’s monsoon, Modi gets the meeting with Chief Minister Edapaddi K Palaniswamy and Deputy CM O Panneerselvam to talk about the work conceded out by authorities in Chennai and other parts of the state. The Prime Minister has assured all of them of Central aid.

Modi’s visit comes at a time when the state is in front of intense rain, due to the inception on the northeast monsoon. Schools and colleges have been closed and examinations delayed because of weather as well.

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