Narendra Modi back on Nitish turf, meets blast victims' families

, Nov 2: BJP's prime ministerial candidate

will meet the families of the six persons who were killed in the serial blasts here on October 27, the day when the BJP had arranged a massive Hunkaar Rally at the historic Gandhi Maidan.

Modi is set to hand over Rs 5-lakh cheques to the bereaved families. He will visit six districts in the state, namely, Patna, Gopalganj, Supaul, Begusarai, Nalanda and Kaimur districts by a helicopter to meet the victims' kin.

Modi will return to Patna airport at 4.30 pm before heading for Ahmedabad. He will visit the families of Rajnara Singh (65) in Gaurichak near Patna, Rajesh Kumar (28) at Ahiapur Musahri village in Nalanda district, Munna Shrivastava (35)at Bari Dhanesh village in Gopalganj, Vikas Kumar Singh (28) at Kaimur. Bharat Rajak (59) at Supaul and Bindeshwari Chaudhari (55) at Begusarai. The entire trip was scheduled for nine hours although the beginning was delayed by fog.

A high alert had been issued by the Intelligence Bureau and Bihar Police in the wake of the Gujarat chief minister's visit here on Friday night. Security has been beefed up as the authorities were leaving no stone unturned, particularly after the blasts that rocked Modi's pre-poll campaign last Sunday.

Modi had lashed out at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar during the rally and the latter retaliated two days later at a JD(U) convention at Rajgir in Bihar.

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