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.
Here are the LIVE updates on PM Modi's UP visit:
- More than 1 lakh panchayats have been connected to optical fibers
- More than 1.5 lakh wellness centres are being made
- More than 1 crore houses were made for the villagers in the last 4 year\
Prime Minister @narendramodi to lay the foundation stone of #PoorvanchalExpressway in Azamgarh
- PIB India (@PIB_India) July 14, 2018
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⏰: 2:45 pm onwards
PM Narendra Modi arrives in Varanasi. He will inaugurate various projects in the city today. pic.twitter.com/V3I0nWXwq5
- ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) July 14, 2018