Lok Sabha Election 2019: PM Modi, Amit Shah set to hit campaign train from Thursday
New Delhi, Mar 26: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party Chief Amit Shah are set to hit the campaign train between last week of March and mid-May, for the upcoming parliamentary elections.
The duo will be addressing around 125 and 150 rallies in Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Western Uttar Pradesh on Thursday.
In Meerut, the BJP is aiming at garnering public support for the saffron party in eight seats across western Uttar Pradesh that will go to the polls in the first phase of the elections on April 11.
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BJP chief Shah and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath have been making rounds to stir up supporters. On Monday, Adityanath visited a temple in Mathura along with local lawmaker Hema Malini after which she filed her nomination papers.
The BJP is expected to face a tough challenge from the Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party alliance (SP-BSP) this time around despite party's gains in the previous Lok Sabha elections and the state assembly polls that followed it.
PM Modi will also address an electoral event in Uttarakhand's Rudrapur on Thursday.
On Friday too, PM Modi will have a packed schedule with three rallies in Odisha's Koraput, Telangana's Mahboob Nagar and Andhra Pradesh's Kurnool.
The Prime Minister will then visit Jammu and Kashmir for a rally in Akhnoor the same day. Security arrangements in the town are being enhanced in view of his visit.
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The
BJP
launched
its
campaign
for
the
national
election
with
the
Vijay
Sankalp
Sabha
at
around
200
locations
on
Sunday,
although
the
Prime
Minister
was
not
part
of
this.
More
such
meetings
will
happen
at
around
250
locations
on
March
26.
Modi is BJP's most popular campaigner, and the party won the 2014 parliamentary election following a campaign centred on him.