Varanasi turned out in its festive best as Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a mega roadshow this evening in the constituency from where he is seeking a third term. The snaking lanes of the country's oldest city saw around a hundred stages built over a 6-km stretch. As his convoy rolled through the roads that turned a sea of saffron with millions of buntings and cutouts, cultural programmes were held on the stages and slogans in support of the VIP candidate rang out.