Modi will pay a brief visit to the port city in the afternoon after attending festivities in the neighbouring state of Kerala.
The project announcement will likely help the Karnataka BJP, which is gearing up for Assembly elections next year and hoping to retake state control by capturing at least 150 of the 224 seats available.

The Prime Minister is expected to arrive at the Mangaluru International Airport around 1:30 pm, from whence he will take a helicopter to the New Mangaluru Port Authority (NMPA) facilities at Panambur.

He will travel to those locations to inaugurate or lay the groundwork for various projects before coming to the Goldfinch city grounds to participate in a formal public celebration.

They claimed that in addition to the one lakh BJP workers who would be present, close to two lakh others would also be there. According to reports, the district administration also sent invitations to the event to roughly 70,000 recipients of various social programmes run by the Union government.