Lucknow:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a rally in Etawah — a Samajwadi Party (SP) bastion in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday.

The BJP campaign has been targeting the main opposition party’s bastions, especially those from where members of the SP’s first family are contesting.

In almost all their rallies, BJP leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, have raked up how five members of SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav’s family are contesting the Lok Sabha election.

Also, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has held two rallies and a roadshow in Mainpuri, an SP citadel that the BJP has never won.

After Etawah, Prime Minister Modi will also address a rally in Sitapur on Sunday afternoon. Thereafter, he will go to Ayodhya to offer prayers at the Ram temple and then hold a roadshow in the holy city.

After taking out a roadshow covering 2.5 km in Coimbatore on Monday, ahead of the Lok Sabha election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid homage to the 58 people who died in a series of bomb blasts 26 years ago — on February 14, 1998, in the city.

Amid shouting of slogans “Modi Modi”, “ Meendum Modi”, “We Want Modi”, “Jai Shri Ram”, and “Bharat Matha Ki Jai” by the BJP cadre and supporters, who had lined up on either side of the road, Mr. Modi arrived at R.S. Puram, which was one of the places of the serial blasts. Read more

Varanasi (UP):

Arriving here days after being made BJP nominee for Varanasi Lok Sabha seat for the third time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was accorded a rousing reception at the Varanasi airport on Saturday.

BJP workers and locals lined up on the roads outside the airport from where PM Modi began a 28-km long roadshow during which he also stopped at the Kashi Vishwanath Temple to offer prayers.

#WATCH | Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds a roadshow in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. pic.twitter.com/1Ors42a6JQ

— ANI (@ANI) March 9, 2024

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, senior party leaders and office bearers were present at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport in Babatpur to welcome the prime minister.

Prayed at the Kashi Vishwanath Temple. Har Har Mahadev! pic.twitter.com/sDeJIDioYF

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) March 9, 2024

BJP regional chief Dilip Patel said that Varanasi district and metropolitan unit made elaborate arrangements for Modi’s visit.

The locals, including women and children, showered flowers on the prime minister during the roadshow amid playing of drums, he said.

PM Modi is also scheduled to visit Atulanand School located in Gilat Bazaar and Kabir Chaura, among other places on the route of the roadshow, Patel said.

Patel said the prime minister will make a night halt at the BLW Guest House here. On the second day of his visit on Sunday, he will leave for Azamgarh from Bareka helipad at around 10 am.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

Jamnagar:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi took out a road show in Jamnagar city on Saturday night from the airport to the circuit house.

PM Modi waved at people lined up on both sides of roads as his cavalcade moved towards its destination amid chants of ‘Modi, Modi’ and ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’.

#WATCH | Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds a roadshow in Jamnagar, Gujarat. pic.twitter.com/bB1nm7FAUM

— ANI (@ANI) February 24, 2024

PM Modi will halt at the Jamnagar circuit house for the night.

He is scheduled to attend two functions in the Devbhumi Dwarka and Rajkot districts in Saurashtra region on Sunday.

In Devbhumi Dwarka, the PM will dedicate to the nation ‘Sudarshan Setu,’ the country’s longest cable-stayed bridge on the Arabian Sea.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)