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Gujarat Assembly Election Highlights: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday appealed to people to be wary of those who defame Gujarat, who he said should not find a place in the state. Modi was addressing a rally at Valsad in Gujarat. He even held a roadshow at Vapi before reaching Valsad. “Beware of those who defame Gujarat. Those who defame Gujarat should not have place in the state,” he said during the rally.
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi will campaign for the party in the Gujarat assembly elections on November 21 when he is scheduled to address a rally each in Rajkot and Surat, the party said on Saturday. Gandhi, who is leading the party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, has so far not campaigned in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. The Yatra is currently in Maharashtra and is set to enter Madhya Pradesh in the next few days.
Meanwhile, visuals of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi walking with his arm around the shoulders of activist Medha Patkar recently, as his Bharat Jodo Yatra crosses Maharashtra, has kicked off a political storm in Gujarat. With the BJP launching its mega campaign deploying national and state leaders across 89 constituencies that go to the polls on December 1, the party said that like Patkar, Gandhi, too, was “anti-Gujarat and anti-Gujaratis”. Patkar had led the movement against Gujarat’s Sardar Sarovar Project through her Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA). Having made the project the focus of his Gujarat development narrative, Narendra Modi has made Patkar the face of the delays in it.
