Gujarat elections 2017: PM Narendra Modi to address rallies in Saurashtra

PM Narendra Modi is slated to address several rallies in the Saurashtra region in the poll-bound state of Gujarat.

Ahmedabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who began his party's campaign for the upcoming assembly elections in his home state of Gujarat from November 27, is slated to address several rallies in the Saurashtra region on Wednesday.

Today, the PM is expected to address poll rallies in Saurashtra at Morbi and Prachi villages near Somnath, Palitana in Bhavnagar and at Navsari in south Gujarat.

PM Modi had on Monday began his party's Gujarat election campaign with a rally in Bhuj. He is expected to hold several public meetings and interactions with supporters and party workers all over the Saurashtra and South Gujarat today.

Starting November 27, the PM is expected to address as many as eight rallies across Saurashtra and south Gujarat, where polling for the first phase of assembly elections will be held on December 9.

Prior to his visit, a horde of Union Ministers and Chief Ministers of BJP-ruled states had toured and campaigned across all the 89 constituencies for the first phase.

Prior to Modi`s campaigning, top BJP leaders had addressed rallies in different parts of the state between November 26 and 27. 

They had aligned their election campaign by merging the "Chai pe Charcha" with workers across 50,000 booths in all the 89 constituencies with tuning in and listen to Prime Minister`s "Mann ki Baat". 

The BJP has named this programme as `Mann Ki Baat - Chai Ke Saath`.

Party workers have been directed to interact with people assembled at the polling booth region and project the party`s themes and the development works carried out by the BJP over the years.

Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, and Uma Bharti, and Chief Ministers Yogi Adityanath (Uttar Pradesh), Vasundhara Raje (Rajastha), Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Madhya Pradesh) and Raman Singh (Chhattisgarh) are among those named as party's star campaigners for Gujarat assembly elections. 

Along with them, BJP national President Amit Shah, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel, state BJP president Jitu Vaghani, former Chief Minister Anandiben Patel and national Vice President Purshottam Rupala will also address gatherings. 

Assembly elections in Gujarat will be held in two phases – December 9 and 14 – and the results will be declared on December 18. 

While 89 seats of Saurashtra and South Gujarat region will go to polls in the first phase, the election in the remaining 93 constituencies in central and northern regions will be held in the second phase.