Modi, Sonia to start campaign for Assembly polls today
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Sonia Gandhi are all set to hit campaign trail in Maharashtra and Haryana to seek votes for their respective party candidates. Sahasrabuddhe expressed confidence that the BJP would win a majority on its own strength and form the government without requiring any post-poll alliances.
To a question about former ally and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray opposing so many rallies by the Prime Minister in the wake of a “Modi wave”, Sahasrabuddhe countered that the BJP had full right to have the meetings and nobody could stop them.
This is the same venue where Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray launched his party’s poll campaign two days ago and blasted the state BJP for snapping the two parties’ 25-year-old alliance.
The build up to Modi’s rally has seen a series of public meetings by state BJP leaders and also union minister Nitin Gadkari in the state in the past few days. The BJP hopes to independently come to power for the first time since it ruled the state in coalition with the Shiv Sena between 1995-1999.
