- Thursday, March 06, 2025
By: ANI
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi will head to poll-bound Gujarat this weekend where he is expected to participate in at least eight programmes crisscrossing the state from Saurashtra to Surat.
The highlight of Modi’s tour is his visit to the famous Somnath Temple on Sunday (20).
The Prime Minister is also the chairman of the Somnath Temple Trust.
Modi will address a rally in Valsad in southern Gujarat on Saturday (19) evening, soon after landing in his home state.
The following day, after visiting the Somnath Temple, he is scheduled to address four rallies in the Saurashtra region.
The venues have been finalised at Veraval, Dhorarji, Amreli, and Botad.
Incidentally, in the last assembly elections, the BJP was not able to win a single seat in these assembly constituencies in Saurashtra.
The BJP won the state polls but wasn’t able to breach this bastion that has traditionally voted for Congress.
On Monday (21), Modi will hold three rallies in Surendranagar, Bharuch, and Navsari.
While Bharuch was the constituency of the former Congress leader Ahmed Patel, the BJP state president CR Patil, who hails from Navsari, has been winning this Lok Sabha seat with huge margins.
Incidentally, Congress Lok Sabha MP Rahul Gandhi is also expected to visit Navsari on Monday, the same day Modi is expected to be there.
Modi is also expected to have a closed-door meeting with the state leaders during his stay here to further boost the party in the western state.
In Gujarat, the BJP party has been in power for more than two decades with Modi being the longest-serving chief minister of the state.
This time, the party, under the leadership of Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, the home minister of India who also hails from the state, and CR Patil, is aiming to fetch more than 140 seats.
The state has been a BJP stronghold for long and the party confident of coming back and forming the government for the seventh term.
The 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 the result date of Himachal Pradesh, another BJP-ruled state.
