With an eye on the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address 50 rallies across the country by February next year, covering more than 100 Lok Sabha constituencies, sources said on Thursday.
BJP chief Amit Shah and senior leaders Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari will also address 50 rallies each, a source said.
All these rallies have been planned to prepare the ground for the BJP's campaign. Each rally is being planned such that it covers 2-3 Lok Sabha constituencies, the source added.
Before the election dates of the Lok Sabha elections are announced, the BJP will already have covered at least 400 Lok Sabha constituencies by organising 200 rallies, a party leader said.
Besides these 50 rallies, Modi will also address rallies in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, where elections are scheduled later this year, the party leader said.
Wednesday's rally by Modi in Malout in Punjab was the first of these rallies. A similar farmers' gathering involving Modi is being planned at Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh later this month.
A party source said that this exercise has been planned to bring the organisation into election mode and prepare a platform for the BJP's Lok Sabha campaign.