Lok Sabha election 2019 live updates: PM Modi’s mega roadshow in Varanasi; Mayawati, Uddhav Thackeray to hold rallies

The election arena on Thursday will witness many important rallies while several leaders will file their nominations.
As the nation gears up for polling for the fourth phase of Lok Sabha election, political leaders across parties have intensified their campaigns to woo the voters. The election arena on Thursday will witness many important rallies while several leaders will file their nominations from their respective constituencies. A day ahead of filing his nomination from his Varanasi constituency, PM Narendra Modi will hold a mega roadshow and “Ganga aarti”. The roadshow will witness NDA’s show of strength and unity with top leaders of BJP and its allies along with several state Chief Ministers accompanying PM Modi.
Besides PM Modi, Congress leader Hardik Patel, BSP supremo Mayawati, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, among several other leaders, will hold rallies. RLSP chief and former union minister Upendra Kushwaha and Rajya Sabha MP Misa Bharti will file their nominations from their respective constituencies.
* Income Tax Department raids underway at former state minister and J&K People’s Conference leader Imran Raza Ansari’s property at Karan Nagar in Srinagar.
* PM Modi is scheduled to meet 3,000 intellectuals of Varanasi in the evening. After the conclusion of the roadshow, PM Modi will hold dialogue with the intellectuals who have done exceptionally well in their field. Then PM Modi will talk to people from all section of society as part of his ‘Mission All’ program. This meeting will be held at the Hotel de Paris grounds.
* BSP supremo Mayawati will address public rallies in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur and Kannauj.
* Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray will hold a rally in Maharashtra’s Pimpri Chinchwad at 7 pm
* RLSP chief and former union minister Upendra Kushwaha will file nomination from Bihar’s Karakat Lok Sabha constituency
* Rajya Sabha MP Misa Bharti will file nomination from Bihar’s Patliputra Lok Sabha constituency
* PM Narendra Modi will hold a mega roadshow and “Ganga aarti”. The Prime Minister will land at Varanasi’s Babatpur airport around 2 pm and head towards Kal Bhairo temple. The roadshow will begin at around 3 pm from the Lanka Gate of Benaras Hindu University (BHU), where the PM Modi will garland Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya’s statue. Bharatiya Janata Party national president Amit Shah, Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari, Sushma Swaraj, Piyush Goyal and other party leaders Lakshman Acharya, Sunil Oza and Ashutosh Tandon will accompany the PM. NDA leaders including Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Shiromani Akali Dal chief Parkash Singh Badal, Lok Jan Shakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan as well as many prominent leaders of North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) will reach the temple city to mark the occasion.
* Before visiting Varanasi, PM Modi will address a rally in Bihar’s Darbhanga at 10 am and in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda at 1 pm.
* Congress President Rahul Gandhi will address three electoral gatherings in Rajasthan. He will organize a meeting at Ajmer at 11 am, in Jalore at 2 pm and at 4 pm in Kota.
* Interestingly, BJP president Amit Shah will also hold an election rally in Jalore at 2 pm and participate in a roadshow in support of BJP candidate Jogendra Singh Shekhawat in Jodhpur in the evening.
* Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi will visit Bundelkhand. At 11 am she will do a roadshow in Jhansi and after the roadshow, she will hold a meeting in Gurusarai at 1.30 pm. Later, she will hold a public meeting at Urla in Jalaun at 3 pm.
* Uttar Pradesh’s Banda will witness a tussle as Congress leader Hardik Patel will too hold a rally at Banda. He will hold a rally in Madhya Pradesh’s Chitrakoot too.