PM Modi to lead BJP's campaign blitzkrieg in Gujarat with over 2 dozen rallies

With Gujarat assembly elections round the corner the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party BJP is now at the peak of its campaign and is banking on its most popular face to lead the chargePrime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to hold close to 25 rallies crisscrossing the state in the next fortnight or soIt will be an actionpacked threeday schedule for PM Modi in his home state starting Saturday eveningOn November 19 evening after landing in Gujarat the Prime Minister will be addressing a rally in ValsadOn the next day PM Modi will visit Somnath Temple and then address four rallies in the Saurashtra region Veraval Dhorarji Amreli and Botad have been finalised as the venues for the four rallies In the last assembly elections BJP was not able to win a single seat in these assembly constituencies in Saurashtra The party won the state polls but could not breach this Congress bastionOn Day 3 PM Modi will hold three rallies in Surendranagar Bharuch and Navsari While Bharuch was the constituency of the former Congress strongman Ahmed Patel the BJP state president CR Paatil who hails from Navsari has been winning his Lok Sabha seat with one of the top margins across the countryUnion Home Minister Amit Shah who also hails from Gujarat and BJP national president JP Nadda are expected to hold more than 15 rallies in the pollbound stateThe party has already drawn a star campaigner list of 40 leaders including the chief ministers of the BJPruled states They are also expected to campaign atleast for 23 days during which they will be holding atleast 23 rallies There is a huge demand from the candidates for Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma to campaign in the stateApart from the 40star campaigners BJP has deputed MPs and MLAs across the state focusing on each and every assembly constituency Right from popular leaders like Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak from Uttar Pradesh to Nitin Naveen from Bihar and senior party MPs like Radha Mohan Singh Nishikant Dubey Satya Pal Singh and others are already camping in the stateIn the 2017 Gujarat polls the BJP was halted at 99 seats out of a total 182 seats The party has been in power for the last 27 years with Narendra Modi being the longestserving chief minister of the stateThis time the party under the leadership of PM Modi Amit Shah and CR Paatil is aiming at getting its highest seat tally exceeding 140The state has been a BJP stronghold for a long and the party has set its sights on returning to power for the seventh termThe state of Gujarat which has 182 assembly constituencies will go for polling in two phases on December 1 and 5 The counting of votes will occur on December 8 which coincides with Himachal Pradeshs result dateThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever