As the State Assembly polls get closer, the ruling BJP and opposition Congress are throwing their weight behind the campaign even as the Election Commission of India (EC) is likely to announce the election dates in a week or so.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has been visiting his poll-bound home State rather frequently of late, will visit Gujarat again on October 7-8. On the agenda are several public events including a visit to his home town Vadnagar to inaugurate a medical college and hospital.

The PM will then fly to Dwarka to lay the foundation stone for a landmark infrastructure project connecting Okha on the Gujarat coast with Bet Dwarka, an island in the Arabian Sea. The primary itinerary shows that Modi will also visit Rajkot to lay the foundation stone for international airport before moving to south Gujarat for another infrastructure project for Bhadbhut weir in Bharuch district.

Last month, Modi had visited Gujarat twice — during Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit and later on his birthday to dedicate the Sardar Sarovar project to the nation.

Interestingly, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is also scheduled to start the second leg of the four-leg Navsarjan Yatra from central Gujarat on October 9.

Rahul will stay in the State for three days, as he did in Saurashtra in the last week of September. On his first Navsarjan Yatra covering several districts of Saurashtra, he attempted a direct connect with the youth, cotton and groundnut farmers and women in rural parts of the region. On the second leg, he will connect with cooperative leaders in central Gujarat, which is a hub of milk cooperatives.

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