Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Tamil Nadu next month and the ruling DMK has been preparing to welcome him for the first time to the state after the party assumed power in the 2021 assembly polls.

While Modi's visit was primarily to inaugurate the medical colleges, the state BJP unit has now charted a plan to make his visit a festive outreach. Prime Minister Modi will be visiting Tamil Nadu on January 12 and he will be attending various events organized in Madurai and Virudhunagar districts.

He will be virtually inaugurating the medical colleges constructed in eleven districts - Nilgiris, Tiruvallur, Virudhunagar, Kallakurichi, Nagapattinam, Ariyalur, Krishnagiri, Dindigul, Ramanathapuram, Namakkal, and Tirupur. The inaugural event will be attended by Chief Minister MK Stalin, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, and Tamil Nadu Health Ministre Ma Subramanian. 

As Modi's visit comes close to the Pongal festival, the Tamil Nadu BJP unit has cultivated a plan to make his visit a prospect for the party's growth in the state. On Friday- December 31, Tamil Nadu BJP Chief K Annamalai has said that the Prime Minister will be participating in the Pongal festival at Madurai on January 12.

The event will be organized under the name 'Modi Pongal' and is expected to be attended by several national BJP leaders. Annamalai has said that a 12-member organizing committee has been formed to take care and successfully conduct the Modi Pongal event. The committee will be headed by state secretary Karu Nagarajan and he also had released the list of the members in the committee. The reports say the Modi Pongal event will be held at Mandela Nagar near Madurai airport on January 12.