Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa will call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi today
Posted on: 03/Jun/2014 11:19:05 AM
Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa will call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Tuesday and lobby for funds for a host of infrastructure projects and welfare schemes for the state.
Jayalalithaa will present a wish list, seeking Modi`s intervention on a wide range of issues, including a huge financial package, additional power from the Centre`s pool and permanent solution to the interstate water-sharing row.
Even as Jayalalithaa and Modi congratulated each other on the resounding victory in the Lok Sabha elections, the invite sent to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to participate in swearing in ceremony of the new government did not go down well with the AIADMK leader.
Jayalalithaa, along with her newly-elected MPs gave Modi`s swearing-in ceremony last week a miss.
The newly-elected AIADMK MPs have already reached Delhi to welcome the chief minister and they will also be present in South Block.
Jayalalithaa will leave Chennai in a special aircraft at 8.30am. She will meet Prime Minister at 1pm and thereafter President Pranab Mukherjee at 2.30pm, before leaving for Tamil Nadu House, where Union ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad and Nirmala Seetharaman will visit her. The CM is expected to return to Chennai at 8pm.
