Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath led the election campaign in Uttar Pradesh by holding rallies and roadshows across the state.
Prime Minister Modi campaigned for 58 Lok Sabha candidates through 32 rallies across UP and held roadshows in five cities, including Varanasi.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath addressed 205 public meetings and roadshows nationwide, with 159 of them in Uttar Pradesh alone.
Bharatiya Janata Party president Nadda held nine rallies in UP while Union Home Minister Amit Shah held 38 rallies and roadshows in the state.
The election notification was issued on March 16, and the BJP leaders immediately began their campaigns. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath kicked-off the party’s campaign with a conference in Mathura, followed by Prime Minister Modi’s first rally in Meerut on March 31.
Despite the intense summer heat, all prominent BJP leaders, including the prime minister, vigorously campaigned in UP over the past two and a half months.
During the campaign, Prime Minister Modi engaged with the public not only through rallies but also via roadshows, and interacted with BJP workers through the NaMo App, and Nari Vandan conferences.
Similarly, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath participated in public meetings, roadshows, and various conferences, including 13 ‘prabuddhajan’ (intellectuals), women’s lawyers’ and worker conferences. Yogi addressed 16 joint rallies with Prime Minister Modi and participated in five roadshows with him.
Prime Minister Modi held his last rallies in Mirzapur, Ghazipur and Bansgaon on May 26, while Chief Minister Yogi conducted his final roadshow in Gorakhpur on Wednesday. On the last day of campaigning, Modi campaigned in Punjab, while Yogi campaigned in Himachal Pradesh and Punjab.
Throughout the campaign, Prime Minister Modi and Chief Minister Yogi held joint rallies in various constituencies including Saharanpur, Pilibhit, Meerut, Amroha, Aligarh, Agra, Etawah, Barabanki, Mohanlalganj, Basti, Dumariyaganj, Sant Kabir Nagar, Ghazipur, Lalganj, Mirzapur and Robertsganj.
The two leaders also held roadshows together in Ghaziabad, Bareilly, Kanpur, Ayodhya and Varanasi.
Over the past two and a half months, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath held 205 public meetings nationwide, with 159 in Uttar Pradesh alone. His demand extended beyond the state, as he held 46 rallies across 16 states, including Delhi, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha, Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and Chandigarh.
