Huge crowd as Narendra Modi resumes roadshow in Varanasi

The PM is scheduled to go to Diesel Locomotive Works late evening where he is to engage in a discussion with select 5,000 intellectuals of the city.

Varanasi, March 5: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday resumed the second leg of his road show in Varanasi with large crowds of supporters and BJP workers thronging the streets.

The five-km road show began at Pandeypur Square and wound its way through Chaukaghat, Teliabagh, Maldahiya and Patel Chowk to culminate at the Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith.

Thousands of supporters thronged the route along which Modi went. The supporters were carrying BJP flags and shouting 'Jai Shri Ram' and 'Har Har Modi, Ghar Ghar Modi', they waved at PM, who acknowledged their greetings and waved back at them.

The PM is scheduled to go to Diesel Locomotive Works late evening where he is to engage in a discussion with select 5,000 intellectuals of the city. He is also to address a public rally in Rohaniya on Monday.

Varanasi, which is PM's parliamentary constituency, and some surrounding districts will go to polls on March 8 which is the seventh and last phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday sought to ridicule PM Narendra Modi's roadshows saying they all are bound to fail like the earlier ones and would stray the PM 'somewhere else'.

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Muslims turned out in large numbers as PM Narendra Modi's roadshow passed through their localities here but the goodwill gesture may not translate into votes for BJP candidates in his parliamentary seat.

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Some political analysts believe that Varanasi is not turning out to be easy the way the BJP may have hoped for its Assembly candidates in Modi's Lok Sabha constituency. Factors like consolidation of opposition votes and well-entrenched rival candidates against BJP's perceived fumbling in picking its nominees have come together to make contests close in this high-profile seat.

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