Gujarat polls LIVE: Bond between Gujarat & BJP is 'unbreakable', says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday appealed to people to be wary of those who defame Gujarat, who he said should not find a place in the state. Addressing a rally in Valsad district in the run-up to the next month's Assembly elections, Modi said Gujarati people have never hurt anybody and embraced whoever comes to Gujarat. “Be aware of the people who want to defame Gujarat and are speaking against us.

PM Modi on Saturday evening addressed a massive rally in Gujarat’s Valsad and said the bond between Gujarat and the BJP is ‘unbreakable’.

Ahead of the Gujarat Assembly elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday will hold two public meetings in the Tapi and Narmada districts of the State.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday conducted roadshows in Vapi city in the Valsad district of Gujarat as the BJP ramps up its election campaign to be in power in the state.

In an effort to intensify its electioneering in poll-bound Gujarat, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday appointed its campaign observers for all 182 Assembly seats of the state.

A daily wage worker whose slum colony in Gujarat capital Gandhinagar was razed in 2019 to make way for a hotel, raised ₹10,000 in Re 1 coins from his supporters and deposited that amount with the Election Commission so that he can contest the next month’s Assembly polls.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has been in power in Gujarat for 27 years, is eyeing a seventh straight win in the assembly elections in the state by banking on Hindutva tones, loudest since 2002, and heavy dose of developmental projects, worth ₹2 lakh crore in past nine months, and denying tickets to 38 MLAs, a year after it replaced almost the entire cabinet, to beat anti-incumbency. Read more

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 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 longest-serving chief minister of the state.

head of the Gujarat assembly elections, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is now at the peak of its campaigning and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, one of the party's star campaigners has so far addressed three rallies in the state -- including the industrial town of Surat.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to hold close to 25 rallies, crisscrossing the state in the next fortnight or so.

"Congress and Rahul Gandhi have time and again shown their animosity towards Gujarat and Gujaratis. By giving Medha Patkar a central place in his Yatra, Rahul Gandhi shows that he stands with those elements who denied water to Gujaratis for decades. Gujarat will not tolerate this," the Gujarat CM said in a tweet a day ago.

Mahatma Gandhi wanted the Congress dissolved after independence, it's time now to "immerse the party in Narmada", because the party cannot provide development, prosperity, security and global prestige to the country, can't respect your faith and be part of your joys and sorrows and prefers terrorism to nationalism, said Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday.

In 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 longest-serving chief minister of the state.

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.

The Prime Minister will visit Gujarat today, and spend three days - attending at least eight programmes in Saurashtra and south Gujarat regions that will go to polls in the first phase along with Kutch.