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Modi votes in India’s 2019 general election

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Ahmedabad on Tuesday morning, where he cast his vote in the third phase of Lok Sabha elections. Later, he took a stroll to his vehicle while flashing his inked finger, reports India Today. 

Standing up inside his vehicle after casting his vote, PM Modi once again made an appeal to voters to exercise the voting franchise. He also said that the voters of India are clever enough to know who to choose.

Making an appeal to voters to cast their votes, PM Modi said, "Like terrorism's power is IED, people's power is voting."

A huge crowd gathered at the polling station while PM Modi rode an open vehicle to the polling station. Modi picked up Amit Shah's granddaughter to play with her as the gathering of supporters cheered seeing Modi and Amit Shah.

PM Modi with Amit Shah and his family before casting his vote in Ahmedabad. (Image: Reuters)

BJP president Amit Shah was present outside the polling booth with his family to receive the Prime Minister.

As PM Modi stepped out of the vehicle, the crowd burst into loud cheers and with folded hands, he greeted the massive gathering.

Voters and party supporters gathered outside the polling booth in Ahmedabad started chanting Modi, Modi as soon as he stepped out of the vehicle.

Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his mother Hiraba Modi in Gandhinagar on Tuesday morning and greeted her with sweets. She gave him a shawl and a coconut as blessings as Gujarat goes to poll in the third phase of Lok Sabha elections.

Hiraba blessed her son, Narendra Modi, who is seeking re-election as the Prime Minister for a second term. As the mother-son duo sat inside the humble Modi household in Gandhinagar, shutterbugs went click happy while hundreds of followers waited outside the residence.

Hiraba Modi, a nonagenarian, lives with her younger son Pankaj Modi at Raisan village located close to the state capital Gandhinagar.

Modi clicked photos with a few supporters in Gandhinagar outside his mother's residence as they waited to catch a glimpse of the Prime Minister, who was a popular chief minister of the state before he went north.