Gujarat polls: Modi ditches road, lands via seaplane; Top 10 developments

Modi is the first passenger to travel from Sabarmati river in the city to Dharoi dam in Mehsana district in a seaplane

As Gujarat enters the last day of campaigning for the Gujarat Assembly elections, a series of political events are lined up across the state. 

While Congress president-elect Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to hold a press conference in Ahmedabad at 1 pm today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose to board the single-engine sea-plane from near the Sardar Bridge connecting the old city with Ahmedabad West, the first-ever flight by such a craft in the country. The plane took off from the Sardar Bridge-end amid chants of "Modi-Modi" from BJP workers and other city dwellers, who flocked the Sabarmati Riverfront to witness