Final push for BJP in Gujarat: Modi addresses six back-to-back rallies

With campaigning set to end at 5 pm on Monday for all 26 Lok Sabha seats of Gujarat that go to polls on Thursday, the Gujarat chief minister is addressing six back-to-back rallies across his home state, in a final push for the Bharatiya Janata Party. [caption id=“attachment_1500081” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  BJP’s PM candidate and Gujarat CM Narendra Modi. PTI[/caption] The BJP’s prime ministerial nominee is contesting himself from Vadodara but skipped campaigning in the city, preferring to concentrate his energies on the last day to the rest of the state. The Gujarat chief minister is wrapping up his campaign in his home state with rallies in Kheralu (Mehsana), Modasa, Lunawada, Dahod, Vallabbh Vidyanagar and Amreli. The Mehsana seat is held by the BJP, and significant for Modi as his hometown of Vadnagar falls in this district. Local MP Jayshreeben Patel defeated Congress veteran Jivabhai Patel in 2009 and faces him again. Modasa is in the Sabarkantha Parliamentary constituency, a Congress stronghold. Dahod is another tribal seat held by the Congress, where the Congress is fielding sitting MP Prabha Taviad, who won convincingly in 2009. Vallabh Vidyanagar is in Anand, also with the Congress. Amreli is with the BJP, but sitting MP Naranbhai Kachadiya is said to be facing stiff anti- incumbency. In Dahod, he is expected to address issues pertaining to adivasis and land as well as the issue of water crisis in the region. Meanwhile, the BJP’s prime ministerial nominee is also seen in series of television spots seeking record-breaking turnouts in Gujarat. “I want to serve you, I have learnt much from these years of service. Whatever Modi is, it is because of you who have made him and prepared him for this. He is your own son,” Modi is seen saying in the television advertisement. “But remember, Modi can serve only when you vote,” he says.