PM Modi In Bengaluru Today To Meet And Interact With ISRO Team Behind Chandrayaan-3 Success

<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Bengaluru on Saturday to meet the ISRO scientists and officials to personally congratulate them for the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3's lander and deployment of the Pragyan rover on the lunar surface. PM Modi will visit the ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bengaluru at around 7:15 AM, as per a statement by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). He will reach Bengaluru immediately after returning from his visit to South Africa and Greece, the release mentioned.</p> <p>"Prime Minister will meet and interact with ISRO scientists involved in the Chandrayaan-3 mission. He will also be briefed about the findings and progress in the Chandrayaan-3 Mission," the PMO stated.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>ALSO READ |&nbsp;<a title="" href="https://ift.tt/iceWtHv" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-toggle="tooltip" data-html="true" data-original-title="Story ID: 1625443" aria-describedby="tooltip409853">Bengaluru Traffic: Know Routes To Avoid Tomorrow In View Of PM Modi's Visit &mdash; Details</a></strong></p> <h3><span style="color: #ba372a;"><strong>PM Modi In Bengaluru: BJP Plans Mega Roadshow</strong></span></h3> <p>Besides this, the Karnataka BJP is planning a grand welcome for PM Modi with a mega roadshow in the city on his arrival, senior BJP leader and former Minister R Ashoka said on Thursday, as per news agency PTI.</p> <p>"PM Narendra Modi is coming on August 26. We will be receiving him in big numbers with more than 6,000 people at HAL airport. There, he might address the people of Bengaluru. Our (BJP) national leader Santosh ji (General Sec B L Santosh) just spoke to me regarding organising a mega roadshow in Peenya, I have spoken to Dasarahalli MLA Muniraju about this," he said, as quoted by PTI.</p> <p>Ashoka told the media that PM Modi has given an opportunity to the people of Bengaluru to share their joy with him.</p> <p>According to the BJP leader, there will be a gathering of people to welcome the Prime Minister at the airport while the plan was to organise a roadshow of about 1 km near Peenya</p> <p>A meeting has been convened at the party office to discuss and finalise things, he added, as per PTI.</p> <p>"We the people of Bengaluru will give Modi a grand welcome, because ISRO means Bengaluru and Bengaluru means ISRO. He is coming here to congratulate ISRO scientists," he added.</p> <p><strong>ALSO READ | <a title="" href="https://ift.tt/2V3n4PN" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-toggle="tooltip" data-html="true" data-original-title="Story ID: 1625395" aria-describedby="tooltip168420">Chandrayaan 3 &mdash; Pragyan Rover Traverses Distance Of 8 Meters, Payloads Turned On: ISRO</a></strong></p> <h3><span style="color: #ba372a;">Chandrayaan-3 Success</span></h3> <p>On Wednesday, PM Modi congratulated ISRO Chairman S Somanath upon the successful soft-landing of the Chandrayaan-3 and said that he would soon visit Bengaluru to greet the entire team in person. He spoke with the ISRO chief in a phone conversation from Johannesburg, where he was attending the BRICS summit.</p> <p>While in Johannesburg, he virtually witnessed the landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the lunar surface and also delivered a speech lauding ISRO scientists.</p> <p>India scripted history as the ambitious Moon mission Chandrayaan-3's Lander Module (LM) successfully landed on the lunar surface, making it only the fourth country to accomplish the feat and the first to reach the uncharted south pole of Earth's only natural satellite.</p> <p>The LM comprising the lander (Vikram) and the rover (Pragyan), made the soft landing near the south polar region of the Moon.</p>

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