Madurai: Wearing traditional attire, Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered prayers at Madurai’s famous Meenakshi Amman temple on Thursday night. He then stayed at a hotel in Thirupparankundram.

Today, Modi will come by road to Amma Thidal, the public meeting venue along Madurai-Thoothukudi Road Ring Road at around 11.30 am..

After sharing the dais with alliance party leaders to introduce 34 candidates of NDA from southern districts, he will leave by a chopper to election-bound Kerala around 12.30 pm. He is also scheduled to address a rally in Kanyakumari.

Over 4,500 policemen drawn from across the State are being deployed for security for the Prime Minister’s visit.

On Thursday, after landing at the Madurai International Airport, Modi reached the temple around 8.30 pm wearing a dhoti and shirt.

Modi offered prayers at Siddhi Vinayagar and Mukkurani Vinayagar shrines located inside the temple.

Further, he went to the sanctum sanctorum of the Meenakshi Amman and thereafter visited the Sundareswarar sanidhi. He also visited the Por Thamarai Kulam.