The Suvarna Tirtha Mantapa, located in front of the Krishna sanctum at Udupi Sri Krishna Mutt, which will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday.
| Photo Credit: UMESH S. SHETTIGAR
As Prime Minister, Narendra Modi will visit Udupi for the first time on Friday, to attend the Laksha Kantha Gita Parayana programme organised by Sri Krishna Mutt and Paryaya Putthige Mutt.
The programme will be a devotional gathering of thousands of participants who will recite the Bhagavad Gita in unison.
According to a Union government release, Mr. Modi will visit the mutt at 11.30 a.m.
The Prime Minister will also inaugurate the Suvarna Tirtha Mantapa, located in front of the Krishna sanctum, and dedicate the Kanaka Kavacha (golden cover) for the sacred Kanakana Kindi, a sacred window through which the saint Kanakadasa is believed to have had the divine darshan of Bhagwan Krishna.
Later, he will travel to Goa, where at around 3:15 p.m., he will visit Sri Samsthan Gokarn Partagali Jeevottam Mutt on the occasion of ‘Sardha Panchashatamanotsava’, the 550th-year celebration of the mutt.
Sri Krishna Mutt was established over 800 years ago by Sri Madhwacharya, the founder of the Dvaita philosophy of Vedanta.
According to the senior pontiff of Putthige Mutt and Paryaya seer Sugunendra Tirtha, earlier Mr. Modi had visited Sri Krishna Mutt during Sugunendra Tirtha’s previous paryaya term when Mr. Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat.
Mr. Modi will arrive at Mangaluru International Airport from where he will fly to Udupi in a helicopter. After alighting at the helipad in Aadi Udupi at 11 a.m., on the way to the mutt Mr. Modi will conduct a roadshow from Bannanje Narayana Guru Circle to Kalsanka.
Udupi Deputy Commissioner T. K. Swaroopa has imposed restrictions on traffic movement in the central business district area, where Sri Krishna Mutt is located, from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. KSRTC and private city buses have been ordered not to operate from their respective bus stands in the central business district area. The Udupi police have made elaborate security arrangements in view of Mr. Modi’s visit.
Meanwhile, the Dakshina Kannada district administration has banned the flying of drones in a 5-km radius of Mangaluru International Airport from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday in view of Prime Minister arriving and departing from the airport.
Published – November 27, 2025 08:41 pm IST
