With just three days to go for the campaigning to end for the fourth and final phase of the Lok Sabha polls in Maharashtra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will address public meetings in Maharashtra on Friday.
While Modi will address a rally at Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) in Mumbai Friday evening, Gandhi will speak in Sinnar in Nashik district around the same time.
In Maharashtra, the Congress president has so far addressed rallies in Nagpur, Wardha, Chandrapur, Nanded and held an interactive session with students in Pune.
When asked if the Congress central leadership had ignored Maharashtra and Mumbai as far as campaigning is concerned, the party's Mumbai unit chief Milind Deora told PTI, "That's not true. Maharashtra has a huge Congress presence and some of the most influential Congress leaders have come to the state for campaigning."
A senior party office-bearer said, "A meeting in Mumbai was not planned. Gandhi had addressed a rally in Mumbai in March before the poll dates were announced."