Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address nine election rallies in support of BJP-Shivsena-led alliance candidates during campaigning for the State Assembly polls in Maharashtra.

BJP President Amit Shah, another star campaigner of the saffron alliance, is slated to address 18 rallies starting from Latur district this week.

State BJP Unit President Chandrakant Patil said in Mumbai yesterday that Prime Minister Modi will kick-off his campaign with a rally in Jalgaon in North Maharashtra on 13th of October followed by a second public meeting at Sakoli in Bhandara district of Vidarbha region the same day.

There are 288 assembly seats in Maharashtra of which the BJP is contesting 164 constituencies and the Shivsena 124.