Live reporting: Modi lambasts UPA govt for farmer suicides, beheading of jawans

4:27 pm: Modi: Are the jawans and kisans secure and safe in Congress rule?  (The crowd shouts No) Modi shows with his fingers, such a small nation like Pakistan, beheads our jawans. If jawans are not safe, how can we shout the slogan Jai Jawan today.

4:24 pm: Modi: Lal Bahadur Shastri had roused this nation. Shastriji gave the slogan Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan. The farmers of India filled up our granaries. There was a time India used to import foodgrains from outside to fill up the bellies of its countrymen, but Shastriji roused the nation.

Today, I speak with grief and pain that because of Congress misrule, the nation's agrarian economy was ruined. The Indian farmer grows foodgrains and guards the nation.

4:20 pm: Modi begins speech. Welcomes leaders from Mahayuti (grand alliance) present on dais. Crowd roars in approval as he welcomes them in Marathi.

12:30 pm: Rally organizers say Modi will arrive by special plane at Yavatmal at 2 pm, visit Sevagram at 2:30 pm, and go to Wardha by helicopter at 3:20 pm. He will leave for Arni at 4:50 pm, meet local farmers at 5:30pm and begin his Chai Pe Charcha at 6 pm. Modi will stay overnight at Yavatmal.