This Holy City of Varanasi witnessed yet another impressive three-kilometre long roadshow of Prime Minister Narendra Modi through the byzantine lanes of his Parliamentary constituency on Friday.

The massive roadshow took more than three hours with an ocean of people thronging the sidewalks throughout the route. More than 10,000 security personnel supervised by over 50 IPS officers had a harried time keeping frantic fans of the Prime Minister from coming close for a closer look and even selfies.

Going into the complex seventh phase of Assembly poll in this eastern region, the somewhat perplexed BJP is pinning its hopes on Modi’s massive roadshow on Friday to tilt the political scale in its favour.

Voting will be held in 54 seats across nine districts of the region in the seventh and last phase of Assembly elections on March 7. In the 2017 Assembly polls, the BJP and its ally Apna Dal had romped home in 36 of these constituencies. 

Since 2014, Modi has been taking out such roadshows in his Parliamentary constituency to send home the message that he cares the electorate .

But on Friday, the impressive roadshow took a totally different route and the high-profile motorcade meandered through narrow lanes amidst huge number of frenzied supporters carrying the tricolour and saffron flags and chanting slogans.

Such a tumultuous gathering on a non-religious occasion in the millennia old city has been rare and slogans like “Har Har Mahadev”, “Modi Modi”, “Yogi Yogi” rented the air as the moving columns crawled through.

The roadshow started with Modi garlanding the statue of Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel at Maldahiya crossing and responding to the sea of supporters in his own inimitable way by waving his left hand. It was the same place from where Modi had started his nomination procession in 2014 Lok Sabha election.

A heavy congregation of people on both sides of the roads was seen during all along the route of the motorcade as it meandered through congested areas of Lahurabir, Kabirchaura, Maidagin, Nichibagh and Chowk.

After reaching Kashi Vishwanath Corridor, which was inaugurated by the Prime Minister a few months ago and the BJP symbolised it same as one of the poll issues in the Assembly elections, Modi offered prayers at the temple.

Later, his motorcade passed through Godowlia, Assi and Lanka and culminated after garlanding the statue of Pt Madan Mohan Malviya near Main Gate of Banaras Hindu University (BHU).