With just two days to go for the 2019 Lok Sabha results, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reportedly scheduled his monthly address ‘Mann ki Baat’ for Sunday, 2 June.
Sources told The Print that unlike the previous term, the prime minister will address the nation on the first Sunday of every month.
However, senior journalist Rajdeep Sardesai tweeted that the Modi reportedly wanted to be sworn in on 26 May and also planned to address the nation via radio on the same day.
Incidentally, he was sworn as the prime minister on 26 May in 2014.
PM Modi addressed his last ‘Mann ki Baat’ on 24 February, before the Model Code of Conduct for the general elections came to place.
Launched in October 2014, on the entire All India Radio network — the programme is dubbed as one of the biggest mass outreach policies of the Modi government. It is also telecast on Doordarshan, picked by several private television news channels, and live streamed on YouTube channels.
Show Being Reformatted?
The new show will be more “interactive” than its earlier version and will feature “newer elements,” The Print report said.
“The change in the format of the programme is still being deliberated on, and may not be possible in the first episode at such short notice. But the programme will be made more interactive in the episodes to follow,” a senior official told the digital news organisation.
(With inputs from The Print)
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