Prime minister Narendra Modi will be going the Barrack Obama way today. Modi will interact with citizens at an indoor stadium in his first-ever 'townhall' style event on Saturday evening in true Obama style. The townhall to be held at the Indira Gandhi Stadium Complex in New Delhi will be preceded by a series of panel discussions and sessions in keeping with the Do, Discuss and Disseminate theme of MyGov and will culminate in the first ever townhall address by the Prime Minister. A new PMO app to enable mobile users to connectwith the PM's website will also be launched at the mega event.  The event is expected to see participation of various ministers and senior government officials, which will be inaugurated by IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and will have four sessions. "The Prime Minister will talk about the concept of citizen engagement, MyGov, the response to this participative governance initiative and how he sees the platform evolving," MyGov Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Gaurav Dwivedi said. The event marks two years of MyGov and PM Modi's session is scheduled between 5 and 6 pm. Those who would be short-lististed from among the regular users of MyGov, based on their ideas, level of engagement, questions and suggestions, will get to interact with Modi.

The townhall address will also see launch of new MyGov initiatives and distribution of awards to winners of MyGov contests - Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat, Duties of a Citizen, Governance Quiz and India Africa Quiz.