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PM Modi and other big guns to make final pitch for votes in UP today

| | Mar 06, 2017, at 06:04 pm
Varanasi, Mar 6 (IBNS) : Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President Amit Shah and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav will address several election rallies on Monday, making the final pitch for votes before the final phase of Assembly elections in the state.

According to reports, the PM, who has been camping in Varanasi for the last three days, will address a public rally in Rohaniya, about 200 km from Varanasi, before returning to New Delhi late in the evening.

On Monday, Modi paid tributes to former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri at his house in city's Ramnagar area.

While BJP chief Amit Shah will hold four rallies in the region. Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav will address seven rallies through the day in favour of the Samajwadi Party-Congress candidates.

In the seventh and final round, 40 Assembly constituencies in eastern UP, including five in Varanasi, will go to polls on Wednesday. The campaign ends on Monday evening.

Votes will be counted on Saturday, March 11.

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