Ruling Samajwadi Party has drawn upon an intensive campaigning programme in Varanasi and Azamgarh on last day of campaigning on Saturday.
SP state president Akhilesh Yadav will hold a three hour long road show in Varanasi in support of party candidate Kailash Chaurasia, who is pitted against BJP’s PM candidate Narendra Modi, AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal and Congress candidate Ajay Rai. Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is also expected to hold a road show in Varanasi on Saturday while Kejriwal already organised a similar show on Friday evening.
SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, will camp in Azamagarh on Saturday, from where he is the candidate and will address three election meetings at Mubarakpur, Jiyanpur and the last one in the city. SP’s Varanasi president Akhilesh Mishra said the CM’s road show will start from Maldihia intersection at 12 noon after garlanding the statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. The CM will ride on an open jeep along with the SP candidate Kailash Chaurasia. The road show will pass through Hindustan International Hotel, Kashi Orphanage and luhrabira crossing where the CM will garland the statue of Chandrashekhar Azad. Then the road show will move towards Chet-ganj and it will pass through Nai Sadak, Income Tax Office, Beniyabagh and will end at St. Thomas Church Crossroads in Gudholia. Mishra said the party is expecting over one lakh people in the road-show which will be bigger than the road shows of Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal. Varanasi District Magistrate Pranjal Yadav said there would be three tier security ring for the Chief Minister’s road show. In addition, to local police, PAC, Rapid Action Force, authorities would also deploy Central Para-military forces.