Gandhinagar, June 19 : Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be on two-day visit to his home state, Gujarat, during which he will engage in a series of public events and pray at the Jagannath Temple in Ahmedabad.

“Shah will stay in Gujarat on September 26 and 27 where he will take part in a host of programmes," a government release said.  He will attend a farmers’ conference at Bavla in Ahmedabad district and will also inaugurate an overbridge on SP Ring Road here, a primary health centre at Sanand and an office of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. 

Farmers from Shah’s Gandhinagar parliamentary constituency are organising the “Rin Sweekar Sammelan" (gratitude acceptance conference) to express gratitude for providing irrigation facilities in 164 villages, the release said. 

“Farmers had been demanding irrigation water supply for a long time. Shah, as the parliamentarian, recommended a permanent solution to the problems of these farmers after which the Gujarat government included 164 villages under Fatewadi-Kharikat irrigation project," the release added.