Assembly Polls 2022: PM Modi To Address Rallies In UP's Saharanpur, Uttarakhand & North Goa
PM Modi will address public rallies in UP’s Saharanpur, Srinagar in Uttarakhand and Mapusa in the North Goa district.
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold three separate election rallies in three different states today. He will address physical public rallies in UP’s Saharanpur, Srinagar in Uttarakhand, and a virtual rally in Mapusa of the North Goa district.
At around 11:45 AM Prime Minister Modi will reach the Saharanpur district, which is going to polls in the second phase of UP assembly election 2022, in Uttar Pradesh.
His next stop will be at Srinagar in Uttarakhand at 1:45 PM. All the 14 seats of Pauri, Rudraprayag, and Chamoli will be targeted in this rally.
At around 7 PM, PM Modi will address a public rally in North Goa’s Mapusa and 20 constituencies in the South Goa district via virtual telecast.
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The contest is intense in the state which is called a litmus test for the political parties at the national level.
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In the previous 2017 UP Assembly election, the BJP swept across 325 seats while the SP, BSP, and other parties had begged 54, 19, and 5 seats respectively.
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