Meghalaya leads: Cong 17,  BJP 3, NPP: 10, Others: 11


Both PM Modi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi held two election rallies each in Meghalaya.

The PM addressed a rally in West Garo Hills district, considered as the Congress bastion since statehood in 1972. The rally at Phulbari town was the Prime Minister's second campaign meeting in the state to drum up support for the BJP candidates in the assembly elections. His first was when he began his campaign in December last year where he had also inaugurated the Shillong-Nongstoin-Tura highway.  The BJP, which has fielded candidates on 47 seats out of a total of 60 (-1) in Meghalaya, is making strong efforts to throw Congress out of power.


Congress president Rahul Gandhi visited Meghalaya on February 20, just a week before the state went to the polls. While addressing a rally at a Jan Sampark programme in Tura district, Gandhi said, "As the Modi Govt nears the end of its tenure, it is clear that instead of giving hope, security and economic growth, they have given us only hopelessness, unemployment, fear, hatred, and violence."


It was Gandhis second visit to the state. On his earlier visit, Gandhi had kicked off the partys campaign in the state with a concert called "Celebration for Peace."


Meghalaya has 18.3 lakh voters of which 42,843 are new voters for the February 27 assembly elections.