Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will begin campaigning for October 15 Assembly polls in Maharashtra from Saturday.
The PM is scheduled to address around 15 election rallies across Maharashtra for the upcoming Assembly polls.
According to a Bharatiya Janata Party official, more rallies can be planned if required.
Today, Modi will address rallies in Beed and Aurangabad in the Marathwada region followed by Mumbai, the country's commercial capital.
The BJP election rally in Mumbai will take place at 7 pm at the Mahalaxmi Race Course.
Top state and central BJP leaders are expected to be present at the much-awaited rally which the party hopes could turn the tables on the other four major contending parties - the Congress, Nationalist Congress Party, Shiv Sena and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena - for the elections.
This is the same venue where Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray launched his party's poll campaign earlier this week and blasted the state BJP for snapping the two parties' 25-year-old alliance.
The build up to Modi's rally has seen a series of public meetings by state BJP leaders and also union minister Nitin Gadkari in the state in the past few days.
The BJP hopes to independently come to power for the first time since it ruled the state in coalition with the Shiv Sena between 1995-1999.
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