Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrates his 71st birthday today. To mark the occasion, 71,000 earthen lamps will be lit up at Varanasi’s Bharat Mata Temple in Kashi. The BJP has also launched a mega 20-day public outreach from Friday and it will continue till October 7 to commemorate his 20 years in public office. Pics/PTI
Updated On: 2021-09-17 08:05 AM IST
On PM Modi's 71st birthday, the party has asked its workers across the country to facilitate Covid-19 vaccination drive as part of its "Seva and Samarpan" campaign. Pic/PTI
Since Modi became the Prime Minister in 2014, the BJP has been celebrating his birthday as 'Seva Diwas' (Service Day) and organises welfare activities across the country for a week, but this time it has been extended to 20 days as he is completing his two decades holding public office. Pic/PTI
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya called for a major push to the vaccination drive on Friday, saying it would be the perfect gift for Modi on his birthday. Pic/PTI
BJP workers sit beside a vaccine shaped cake on the eve of the birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in Bhopal. Pic/PTI
Prime Minister Narendra Modi being greeted with lamps on the eve of his birthday, during the Ganga Aarti at Dashashwamedh Ghat in Varanasi. Pic/PTI
Modi being greeted by his supporters on the eve of his birthday, during the Ganga Aarti at Dashashwamedh Ghat in Varanasi. Pic/PTI
To mark the day, BJP party workers will organise health and blood donation camps and will distribute rations to poor as part of the campaign. Over 14 crore ration bags printed with Modi's pictures will also be distributed among the needy during the exercise. Pic/PTI
Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik creates a sand sculpture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi by using 2,035 seashells to mark his birthday, at Puri beach in Odisha. Pic/PTI
The party has said that five crore postcards will be sent to Modi by BJP booth workers from across the country, highlighting that they are committing themselves to public service. Pic/PTI
The LJP faction headed by Union minister Pashupati Kumar Paras will also celebrate Modi's birthday by distributing food among the poor and planting saplings in the national capital. File pic
On Prime Minister's birth anniversary, MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan has planned the third ‘Maha Vaccination Abhiyan’ in his state on September 17 while the Karnataka government has planned a blood-donation campaign along with the vaccination drive. Pic/PTI
Children celebrate Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday at a school in Meerut. Pic/PTI
