8 years ago
New Delhi:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi started his Uttar Pradesh visit today, his second to this part of the state in a just over a fortnight. During the two-day, PM Modi visits Varanasi, Azamgarh and Mirzapur. The prime minister makes his first public appearance in Azamgarh, seen as a dark spot for the BJP which swept the 2014 Lok Sabha elections in UP but lost the Azamgarh seat to former Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.
In the 2017 assembly polls, the BJP routed Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party and Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party or BSP almost everywhere else in the state, but in Azamgarh's 10 assembly seats, it managed to win just one - conceding the rest to now allies Akhilesh Yadav and Mayawati.
