BJP leaders and workers led by state president Kummanom Rajasekharan would receive the Minister on his arrival at Nedumbassery airport that day. A reception has been arranged at Moovatupuzha in Ernakulam district later in the day, a party release said here today.
A bureaucrat-turned-politician, Kannanthanam, a national executive member of the party, is the first from Kerala to become a minister in the BJP-led NDA goverment headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
A road-show has also been arranged by the party for the Minister in his home constituency Kanjirapally in Kottayam district.
A reception has also been organised for Kannanthanam, who has been made Minister of State for Tourism, IT and Eectronics in the state capital on September 16 before he leaves for New Delhi.