Uttar Pradesh election: PM Modi pays tribute to Lal Bahadur Shastri in Ramnagar

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today paid tribute to former PM Lal Bahadur Shastri in Varanasi's Ramnagar, where Shastri was born.

He garlanded a statue of Shastri, and visited the Congress stalwart's ancestral residence.

The people of Varanasi have a special connect with the Shashtri's legacy, and he's considered to be the most humble Prime Minister the country has ever seen.

Modi is campaigning in Varanasi - the constitutency from which he was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2014 - for the third consecutive day.

Today's the last day of campaigning before the final phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.