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.