Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah will continue their campaign out Varanasi. The PM was at a gaushala at Gadhwa ghat Ashram in Varanasi this morning.

Modi will be spending the third consecutive day at his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi today campaigning for the Assembly election which has now transformed into a do-or-die battle for all the major parties. The last of the seven-phase voting is scheduled to be held on March 8. The PM will address a public rally in Rohaniya, about 200 km from Varanasi, before returning to New Delhi late in the evening.  

On the last day of campaigning in the marathon Uttar Pradesh elections, star campaigners will today make a final pitch for votes in multiple rallies. UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, seeking a second term in UP, will address seven rallies through the day.


40 assembly constituencies in eastern UP, including five in Varanasi, will vote in the final round of the seven-phase UP assembly election on Wednesday. Votes will be counted on Saturday, March 11.    

The UP assembly election, a contest between the BJP, the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance and the BSP, is seen as a bellwether for the 2019 national election.   


On Saturday, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav along with ally Rahul Gandhi of the Congress too held a roadshow in Varanasi almost crossing the path of PM Modi.