Gujarat polls: PM Modi holds massive roadshow in Ahmedabad

In the runup to the Gujarat Assembly elections Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held a massive roadshow in AhmedabadPeople flocked on both sides of the streets through which the Prime Ministers convoy was passing People showered flowers on his convoy The crowd carrying his posters were chanting ModiModi The Prime Minister was also seen greeting people and waving his handsAfter a gap of two days Prime Minister Modi once again returned to the Gujarat election campaign trail His threehourlong mega roadshow is spanning across 16 assembly constituencies for the second phase of the Assembly electionCovering over 50 kms the roadshow started from the Naroda Gam and will be ending at Gandhinagar South constituency PM Modi is scheduled to make at least 35 stops at the memorials of prominent personalities including Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on the wayThakkarbapanagar Bapunagar Nikol Amraiwadi Maninagar Danilimbda Jamalpur Khadia Elisbridge Vejalpur Ghatlodia Naranpur Sabarmati are some of the constituencies that the Prime Minister is covering in his roadshowAlso Read Warmer winter likely in northwest India MetInterestingly while the Prime Minister canvases for the second phase of the Gujarat election the voting for the first phase of the Gujarat election was underwayModi has been Gujarats longestserving chief minister from 2001 to 2014In the 2017 Gujarat polls Bharatiya Janata Partys BJP tally stopped at 99 seats out of a total of 182 seats The party has been in power for the last 27 years with Narendra Modi being the states longestserving chief ministerThis 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 termMeanwhile the voting for the first phase of the twophased Gujarat Assembly polls concluded on Thursday at 5 pm with a total voter turnout of 5675 per cent The polling is taking place in 89 constituencies spread across 19 districts of Kutch Saurashtra and South GujaratBJP chief ministerial candidate Bhupendra Patel contested from the Ghatlodia seat Among prominent candidates Aam Aadmi Party AAP chief ministerial candidate Isudan Gadhvi contested from Khambhaliya former Congress leader and BJP candidate Hardik Patel from Viramgam former Congress leader and now BJP candidate Alpesh Thakor from Gandhinagar SouthAAP state president Gopal Italia contested from Katargam constituency Gujarat Home Minister State Harsh Sanghavi from Majura Rivaba Jadeja from Jamnagar North former Gujarat minister Parshottam Solanki from Bhavnagar Rural Kunwarji Bavaliya from Jasdan Kantilal Amrutiya from Morbi and Jayesh Radadiya from JetpurThe second phase of the Gujarat election would be held on December 5The counting of votes will be done on December 8 Results of the Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections will also be declared on the same dayThis 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