Gujarat polls 2022: Rahul Gandhi, PM Modi, Arvind Kejriwal to hold rallies in state today
Rajkot, November 21: As Gujarat Assembly elections are around the corner, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday will hold his maiden rally in the poll-bound state today.
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Rahul Gandhi who is leading Congress' Bharat Jodo Yatra, will address rallies in poll-bound Gujarat for the first time since elections were announced in the coastal state. Rahul Gandhi has been absent from Gujarat and he has not campaigned in the state so far in this election.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address three back-to-back Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Vijay Sankalp Sammelan rallies in the poll-bound state today.
PM Modi's first rally on Monday will be in Surendranagar at 11 am, the next will be in Jabusar at 1 pm, and then in Navsari around 3 pm. Union Home Minister Amit Shah will hold four public meetings in Dwarka, Somnath, Junagadh and Kutchh districts of the state on Monday ahead of the Gujarat assembly elections slated next month.
At around 11 am, Shah will address the first meeting in the Khambhaliya Assembly constituency in Dwarka district. Then at 1 pm, in Somnath at Kodinar, he will address another rally.
The other two meetings that the Home Minister will address are at 3 and 4 pm in the Mangrol Assembly constituency in Junagadh and Bhuj Assembly constituency in Kutchh respectively.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who is also a BJP's star campaigner for the Gujarat elections, will also address a public meeting in the Mahemdavad assembly constituency.
The former Congress president, who had refrained from campaigning in Himachal Pradesh, will be addressing two public rallies in Rajkot and Surat for the first time.
He will address the first rally at 1 pm in Panch Kakada, near Anaval Village, Mahuwa town in Surat district and the other rally at 3 pm at Shastri Maidan in Rajkot on Monday.
This will also be going to be the first political engagement since the Bharat Jodo Yatra began on September 7.
Notably, he was last seen in Gujarat on September 5, where he addressed the party workers in Ahmedabad, two days before moving on to lead the Yatra which began from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu and will enter Madhya Pradesh as it wrapped up the Maharashtra leg today.
Reportedly, the Bharat Jodo Yatra be on a break on Monday as Rahul Gandhi will address rallies.
Speaking about the scheduled public rally in the state, the Congress MP KC Venugopal said, "He (Rahul Gandhi) will visit Gujarat on Nov 21. He will go to Rajkot and Surat to hold public rallies".
Earlier, the Gujarat public rally of Rahul Gandhi was confirmed by the Rajasthan Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra during a press meeting on November 9.
"During the yatra, Rahul Gandhi will also take part in the party's campaign for Gujarat assembly polls", asserted Dotasra during the presser.
The Elections for the 182-member State Assembly will be held in two phases on December 1 and 5. The counting of votes will be taken up on December 8.
In Gujarat, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been in power for over 27 years and is seeking its seventh term in office.
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