PM Modi To Hold Rally In Gujarat: Source

PM will hold a 2-days visit to Gujarat.

New Delhi: Ahead of the Uttar Pradesh's and four more states Assembly election exit polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a two-day visit to his home state Gujarat starting March 11. Gujarat goes to the polls later this year and will be the next big electoral contest.

According to a Govt., sources said that on Friday, Prime Minister Modi will hold a big rally.  His visit will also coincide with the beginning of the three-day All India Pratinidhi Sabha meeting of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ideological mentor of the BJP.

The BJP has started preparations for the elections in December last year, with the party's state leaders priming up the workers for the contest ahead.

Back in 2017, the central govt. faced a tough battle against the Congress re-energized by the newly elected party president Rahul Gandhi.

This time, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has taunted the BJP even before the elections in his home state was held, saying the Uttar Pradesh elections will not throw a surprise result and the "real surprise" will be in Gujarat elections.

The people of Uttar Pradesh have already given their verdict and the BJP is "nervous", he said. The voters, he added, will teach a lesson to those who are honoring the killers of Mahatma Gandhi.

As of now, the exit polls for the Assembly polls have predicted a big win for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh. Although the party is shown to be in a close fight with the Congress in Goa and Uttarakhand -- two states it rules. In BJP-ruled Manipur, it is set to emerge as the largest party an aggregate of six exit polls indicated, just one below the majority mark.