Gujarat elections : PM Modi to address 3 rallies today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Wednesday address three election rallies at Dhandhuka, Dahod and Netrang in poll-bound Gujarat.

As per reports, the star campaigner of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Prime Minister Modi, will address election rallies in these regions. PM Modi's Surat rally, which was earlier scheduled for Wednesday, has been postponed by a day.

A day earlier, many rallies and meetings in the poll-bound state were cancelled due to bad weather conditions. Cyclone Ockhi was expected to make landfall near the state capital Surat by Tuesday midnight; however, it gradually weakened.

Ahmedabad - Cyclone Ockhi is gradually weakening into a depression and may not hit the Gujarat coast near Surat as predicted earlier, the Meteorological Centre said here on Tuesday night. BJP President Amit Shah's poll rallies scheduled in Rajula town of Amreli and Mahuva and Shihor of Bhavnagar district were cancelled.

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, too, cancelled three rallies in Morbi, Dhrangadhra and Surendranagar due to the impending cyclone. On Tuesday, the BJP called off the press conferences of Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanat in the state capital due to Cyclone Ockhi.