Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a “special” selfie on the finish of his one-day Hyderabad, Chennai visit on Saturday, with a otherwise abled Bharatiya Janata Party employee. Modi praised Thiru S Manikandan as a “proud” get together employee and known as him a supply of motivation.

“A special selfie…In Chennai I met Thiru S. Manikandan. He is a proud @BJP4TamilNadu Karyakarta from Erode, serving as a booth president. A person with disability, he runs his own shop and the most motivating aspect is – he gives a substantial part of his daily profits to BJP,” Modi tweeted, sharing the photographs.

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Modi arrived in Chennai after visiting Hyderabad earlier on Saturday and launched tasks value over ₹13,700 crore in each cities. In Chennai, he inaugurated the New Integrated Terminal Building of Chennai Airport in addition to flagged off the Chennai-Coimbatore Vande Bharat Express.

During a public rally within the metropolis late night, Modi showered praises for Tamil Nadu’s wealthy historical past and mentioned “it is the land of language and literature and a centre of patriotism and national consciousness. Many of the nation’s leading freedom fighters were from Tamil Nadu”.

Launching projects worth ₹5,200 crore in Chennai, he hailed the post-2014 National Democratic Alliance government’s efforts to “revolutionise” India’s infrastructure sector.