Gujarat Assembly elections: PM ends poll campaign with a 'splash'

Prime Minister Narendra Modi began the last day of campaigning for the Gujarat Assembly polls on Tuesday with a splash.

Denied permission by the local administration to hold a roadshow in Ahmedabad because of security concerns, the PM took to the skies, through water. The PM flew in a single-engine amphibious aircraft from the Sabarmati River to Dharoi Dam in Mehsana district in the morning. 

Congress President-elect Rahul Gandhi, who was also denied permission to hold a public rally in Ahmedabad and held a press conference instead, termed it a “good event”, but a “distraction” from the real issues facing Gujarat -