The last day of campaigning on Tuesday for the second phase of the Gujarat election will witness two things for the first time this poll season — a seaplane sortie by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a press conference by new Congress president Rahul Gandhi.
Modi will fly in a seaplane from the Sabarmati river in Ahmedabad and land at Dharoi dam in Mehsana district, some 150 km from the city. He will then head to Ambaji temple in Ambaji town and offer prayers. Modi will fly back to Ahmedabad in the same plane.
Gandhi will address a press conference in Ahmedabad — his first after getting elected president of the Congress on Monday. It will also be his first interaction with the media during his months-long campaign in Gujarat.
Here are the live updates:
8.46am: Rahul Gandhi seeks answers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on land, employment, health and education for Dalits of Gujarat.
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8.45am: Congress president Rahul Gandhi tweets another question for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
8.35am: Security tightened near the Sabarmati riverfront in Ahmedabad ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s seaplane sortie.
8.30pm: The BJP does not say if Modi would conduct any public meeting in Ahmedabad or elsewhere in central and north Gujarat where the second phase of polling is to take place.
8.27am: The Prime Minister would return to Ahmedabad around 2.30pm by the same route, says BJP.
8.25am: The BJP makes an announcement Monday night that Modi would be taking a special seaplane from the Sabarmati river and travel to the famous pilgrimage Ambaji temple by road after landing on the Dharoi dam waters in north Gujarat.
Source: HindustanTimes