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.
Raje, BJP state president Madan Lal Saini and other leaders reviewed on Friday the preparations for the rally to be held at Kayad Vishram Sthali on the outskirts of Ajmer where party leaders claimed nearly three lakh people would come.
"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.
Amin Pathan, the chairman of Ajmer Dargah Committee, said he has urged the members of the minority community to attend the Modi’s rally in large numbers.
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.
Modi Only Visits Ajmer for Votes: Congress
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.
“Modiji is coming to Ajmer, but he remembers the city only at the time of elections. He visits Ajmer to seek votes, Pilot told PTI.
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.
Current Political Climate in Ajmer
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.
The Assembly elections in Rajasthan are due later this year.
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