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With power on agenda, both the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress are making strenuous efforts to conquer state assembly elections and the crucial 2019 Lok Sabha elections that are soon approaching.
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi is leading the saffron party and visiting poll-bound states, Congress President Rahul Gandhi too is working with different strategies and separate approach in each state.
Saturday, October 6, will see Modi address a rally in Rajasthan's Ajmer, marking the conclusion of Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje's state-wide 'Rajasthan Gaurav Yatra' which she had begun from Rajsamand's Charbhujanath temple, ahead of assembly elections in the state.
Ajmer district has eight assembly constituencies and seven of them are represented by BJP MLAs while the Congress has one seat of Nasirabad.
The ruling party, which had lost the Ajmer Lok Sabha constituency to Congress in bypolls held earlier this year, is trying to build a favourable atmosphere and mood among the voters by holding the rally of Modi, who had addressed an election rally in Ajmer in 2013 also.
The Congress had won the Ajmer Lok Sabha seat by defeating BJP's Ramswaroop Lamba who is the son of former Ajmer MP Sanwar Lal Jat. The seat went to bypoll after the then sitting MP Sanwar Lal Jat died due to cardiac arrest last year.
Rahul Gandhi, on the other hand, is set to undertake a day-long visit to Madhya Pradesh today, during which he will attend an event organised by a tribal organisation and also address a public meeting. He will tour Morena and Jabalpur in what will be his third visit to the poll-bound state in less than 20 days.
He will address a meeting of the Adivasi Ekta Parishad at the Ambedkar Stadium in Morena. A large number of people under the banner of the Adivasi Ekta Parishad have embarked on a foot march from Gwalior on October 2 (Gandhi Jayanti), seeking land rights for tribals and farmers. The march will conclude in New Delhi.
Gandhi, who has shown a 'Hindutva' tilt in the recent times, has been seen hopping to temples and even undertook Kailash Mansarovar Yatra in September this year.
Soon after his pilgrimage, Rahul was called 'Shivbhakt' in posters when he came to Bhopal to address a workers' conclave on September 17. After 10 days, he started his election campaign in Madhya Pradesh after offering puja at the Kamtanath temple in Chitrakoot, where Lord Rama spent 12 of the 14 years in exile. Several Congress posters welcomed the Congress President as "Rambhakt Pandit Rahul Gandhi" in Chitrakoot, wherein he was seen with folded hands before a picture of Lord Rama.
On similar lines, Rahul Gandhi will now perform "Narmada puja" at the Gwari Ghat in Jabalpur and embark on a roadshow from the Bandria Tiraha (tri-section) to the Abdul Hameed Tiraha.
Congressmen have put up posters, banners and set up nearly 100 temporary stages on both sides of the eight-km-long roadshow route. Gandhi will also address a public meeting at the Raddi Chowk in the city.
Gandhi had earlier visited Bhopal and Rewa-Satna in the Vindhya region. Morena and Jabalpur fall in the Chambal and Mahakaushal regions respectively.
The Assembly polls in the state, where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is in power since 2003, are due by the year-end.
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