Bengaluru woman refuses to return from Prayagraj without meeting PM Modi, UP CM

BENGALURU: A woman from Sahakara Nagar in Bengaluru, who had gone to Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh Mela about a week ago, has been hospitalised there after taking ill. A hardcore fan of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, she is insistent that she meets the PM and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and refuses to return home.

Jayamma Narasimhappa stays in a rented house at Sahakara Nagar in Bengaluru and hails from Chikkaballapur. During her visit to Prayagraj, she fell very sick and was rescued by the UNICEF and the police who admitted her to a local hospital. She told them that she had come from Bengaluru and that she would not return without meeting PM Modi and CM Yogi Adityanath.

Rajashekar of the NGO Samrakshana, said, “Jayamma’s daughter works in a software company in Bengaluru and she has been trying to meet the PM for the last seven years. She was rescued at the Maha Kumbh Mela and hospitalised. We spoke to the authorities there and tried to convince her to return, but she says she will stay there until she gets a chance to meet them”.

The Uttar Pradesh police contacted the NGO after they realised the Jayamma was speaking in Kannada. The NGO persuaded her to return, even arranged a video call with Rajajinagar MLA and senior BJP leader S Suresh Kumar, but she remained adamant.

The NGO then traced the woman’s family to Canara Bank Layout in Sahakara Nagar and informed them that Jayamma was in Prayagraj. It was then that they came to know that she had met former CM B S Yediyurappa, Union minister Shobha Karandlaje and other BJP leaders with the hope that she would get a chance to meet the PM.

Jayamma had gone with her daughter to Prayagraj and while returning, she got off the train aroundt 5 am when the daughter was asleep. “When I realised my mother was not with me, I called her, but she didn’t answer the phone. I looked around in the train and kept calling her. About 40 minutes later, she answered the phone and said she was heading back to Prayagraj. She said she will bathe at the Triveni Sangam for 10 more days”, the daughter said.

Meanwhile, the NGO is making attempts to bring her back to Bengaluru.