Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday will begin his campaign blitz in poll-bound Maharashtra with a rally in Dhule and a public meeting in Nashik.

In a statement issued on Thursday, the Maharashtra BJP said the PM will also hold a roadshow in Pune on November 12.

Modi’s first rally will be held in Dhule in north Maharashtra and will proceed to Nashik, where he will address a public meeting, it said.

Elections to the 288-member state legislative assembly will be held on November 20 and the votes will be counted three days later.

The BJP is contesting the elections as part of the Mahayuti alliance which also comprises Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).

The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) comprising the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP (SP) of Sharad Pawar and Congress is fighting the polls against the Mahayuti.

Meanwhile, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will also be In Maharashtra where he will address four public rallies in Shirala, Karad South, Sangli and Ichalkaranji Assembly constituencies.

The Congress’ month-long ‘Delhi Nyay Yatra’ will kick off from Rajghat on Friday as it plans to put pressure on the AAP government on various issues to regain its lost ground in the city ahead of the assembly polls due early next year.

Senior Congress leadership, including party president Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, and K C Venugopal, are likely to attend the yatra.

Delhi Congress chief Devender Yadav said they have invited Kharge, Gandhi and Venugopal while the party’s other leaders will also participate in this yatra from time to time and extend their support.

On the lines of Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, the Congress workers and leaders would interact with the people of the city during the ‘Delhi Nyay Yatra and learn about the problems they have been facing in the past 10 years.

The march will start on November 8 from Rajghat, pass through all 70 Assembly segments and conclude in Timarpur on December 4.

It would be held in four phases. The first phase would cover 16 assembly segments starting from Chandni Chowk and the second phase from November 15 to 20 would cover 18 seats.

As many as 16 Assembly segments would be covered in the third phase from November 22 to 27 and 20 seats in the fourth from November 29 to December 4.

Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy will interact with people affected by the pollution in the Musi river in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district on November 8.

Reddy would visit the famous Lord Narasimha temple at Yadagirigutta on November 8, his birthday. He would later go on foot to meet the people living near the Musi river, official sources said on Monday.

The interaction is scheduled against the backdrop of the state government’s plan to rejuvenate the highly-polluted Musi river that flows through Hyderabad city before reaching the Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district, and to redevelop the Musi riverfront.

BRS working president K T Rama Rao had alleged last month that “a scam has begun in Telangana in the name of Musi river rejuvenation”, while Reddy accused the opposition party of trying to stall the Musi project.

– With PTI inputs