After waging a verbal war against NCP chief Sharad Pawar during the first two days of his Maharashtra campaign,Prime Minister Narendra Modi will now head towards Baramati, the Pawar family's bastion, where he will address rally on October nine. Mr Modi will visit Pimpri-Chinchwad, another stronghold of Mr Pawar the same day, as the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has been in control of the local civic body for over a decade now, sources in BJP here today said. The BJP leaders futher said that the party was going all out to cause a dent in Mr Pawar's strongholds. Mr Modi will hold his first rally in Baramati on October nine. It will be the first time when a Prime Minister will be addressing a public meeting there in past 34 years. Earlier, in 1980, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had campaigned for Congress (I) candidate Marutrao Chopde. 'Indira Gandhi had come to campaign against Sharad Pawar, who was then the head of Conrgress (S). Despite Ms Gandhi campaigning for Mr Chopde, it had no effect on Mr Pawar as he was elected with a huge margin,' said Kiran Gujar, who has been a close associate of Mr Pawar for over four decades. Mr Pawar, who was then contesting the assembly elections, had polled 54,919 votes while his rival could manage only 26,550 votes and as many as 1,838 votes were invalid. On October nine, Mr Modi will address a rally at the H A Ground in Pimpri. The last time a Prime Minister had visited the industrial town of Pimpri-Chinchwad was in 1984 when Rajiv Gandhi had addresssed a rally at Sangvi Keshri College premises in Chinchwad. There was a huge crowd in attendenace at Rajiv's rally, recalled Babu Nair, a Congress leader. Mr Gandhi had come to campaign for Congress candidate Shankarrao Bajirao Patil, who was contesting from Baramati parliamentrry contituency. The Pimpri-Chinchwad was then part of the Baramati contitneycy. Now it is a part of Maval. More UNI XR SP SS NP1805 NNNN -- (UNI) -- 06BY24.xml