Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a rally in Ajmer in Rajasthan on Saturday, 6 October, marking the conclusion of Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje's state-wide yatra ahead of the Assembly elections in the state.
Earlier, Modi was scheduled to visit Brahma temple in Pushkar town but he only attended the Ajmer rally.
"This will be a historic rally of the prime minister which will be participated by a large number of people," Onkar Singh Lakhawat, the chairman of Rajasthan Heritage Preservation and Promotion Authority, said.
He said the party workers were "fully geared up and filled with enthusiasm" for the rally.
The rally marks the completion of Raje's 'Rajasthan Gaurav Yatra' which she had begun from Rajsamand's Charbhujanath temple.
Ajmer District Collector Arti Dogra said the prime minister will return to Jaipur after the programme.
There is no schedule for Brahma temple visit in Pushkar, she asserted.
The state Primary and Secondary Education minister Vasudev Devnani, who represents Ajmer North Assembly constituency, has been campaigning in the area and inviting people to attend the rally.
Targeting Narendra Modi over his proposed rally in Rajasthan's Ajmer district, Congress' state chief Sachin Pilot, on Friday, said the prime minister remembers the city only at the time of elections.
He also accused Raje of misleading the prime minister on the state of affairs in Rajasthan.
Raje would have indeed misled the prime minister on development in Ajmer, he added.
The prime minister addressed a public meeting at Kayad Vishram Sthali on the outskirts of Ajmer on the completion of Raje's Rajasthan Gaurav Yatra on Saturday.
Pilot said Raje had begun her yatra in a bus but later she flew in a helicopter because of the resistance she faced from public during the yatra in different parts of 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 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.
The Assembly elections in Rajasthan are due later this year.
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