PALATANA / UDAIPUR / AGARTALA, November 29 (TIWN): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not attend any meeting with the State Cabinet during his visit to Tripura on December 1. A highly placed source in the PMO told TIWN over phone," The inaugural programme will be of exactly of one hour duration including PM Modi’s address to a gathering of 50,000 people inside the project area. After the OTPC Unit II inauguration, PM will leave from the venue of the function at 15.15 hrs by road and arrive at the Palatana Helipad at 15.20hrs. At 15.25 hrs the MI-8/17 Helicopter of the PM will depart from Palatana and arrive at Agartala Airport at 15.50 hrs."According the sources, at 16.00 hrs Prime Minister Narendra Modi will leave the state by IAF BBJ. By 19.15 hrs PM will reach Delhi Airport. The PMO sources also told TIWN ," Details of the PM programme have been communicated to the Chief Secretary, DGP, IGP(Int/Security), Secretary (GAD/Protocol), DD , SIB and SP (SECURITY) from the New Delhi ( Director SPG) by AIG SPG Bhupinder Singh on 25th November.

ICA Secretary Santanu Das informed the press on Friday about the cancellation of PM's Secretariet visit.  ICA Secretary Santanu Das also informed that there will be no guard of honour ceremony to be held at Agartala on that morning because the PMO office has officially cancelled any such programme. This has come as a severe blow to the State Govt especially to Chief Minister Manik Sarkar . Manik Sarkar specifically requested PM Modi to attend at a courtesy meeting with the State Cabinet of the State Secretariat. Accordingly, on Tuesday CM Manik Sarkar invited a press meet and categorically said ," Returning from Palatana Prime Minister will meet the members of the state cabinet in the State Secretariat in the afternoon of December 1."

CM Manik Sarkar's Nov 25th Press Meet in details about meeting with Modi in State Secretariet :

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" All in vain as Modi not vistiing State Secretariet" - Painting work in State Secretariet in full swing since 1 week . TIWN Pic Nov 27

In order to please the PM, state govt has been making extravagant display of money being spent after the beautification of roads from Agartala Airport to State Secretariat . But on Friday afternoon ICA Secretary Santanu Das mentioned that PM will neither receive any guard of honour in the Airport nor will meet with the members with the state cabinet at Secretariet. Interestingly, Chief Minister came out to the press declaring about this ' high profile meet' but when the meeting has been officially cancelled it is the Secretary ICA who made that announcement before the press. On December 1, PM Modi will arrive at Agartala Airport and from there by helicopter he will straightway go to Palatana, where PM will dedicate the Unit-II(363.3MW) of OTPCs 726.6mw Combined Cycle Gas Turbine( CCGT) Thermal Power Plant. And after the one hour programme there PM will come to Agartala and will leave for New Delhi by the afternoon flight. 

DGP K. Nagraj and senior Police officials visiting OTPC Palatana to inspect security preparations.TIWN Pic Nov 28