Watch: PM Modi kicks off BJP's Rajasthan campaign, launches scathing attack on Congress

Prime Minister Narendra Modi who arrived in Ajmer on Saturday is addressing a public rally on the culmination of Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje's Rajasthan Gaurav Yatra.

This is the first political rally of the prime minister in Rajasthan, where Assembly polls will be held later this year.

Tight security arrangements have been made for the rally.

On his arrival from New Delhi, Modi was welcomed by Raje at the Jaipur airport. He then left for Ajmer in a helicopter, which has reached near the rally venue at Kayad Vishram Sthali on the Ajmer-Jaipur highway.

The prime minister was accompanied by Raje to Ajmer in the helicopter.

► PM Modi welcomes with chants of har-har Modi

► Modi says, "I am Prime Minister for the nation, but a worker for the BJP. So wherever I am invited, even if at a booth level meeting, I will be present."

► Reiterating his slogan "Sabka Sath Sabka Vikaas", PM Modi said that vote bank politics is detrimental for the development. 

► The vote-bank politics is not just restricted to elections, but it destroys the entire system. Please don't let such people get into any corner of the country.

► For 60 long years, the Congress practiced vote bank politics. This led to severe problems. Politics of development was never acceptable to Congress

► If the parties who do vote bank politics comes to power, they will divide the government officers too according to their politics and provides posts only to those who fit their vote bank politics, and thus, destroy bureaucracy.

► PM Modi attacks Congress chief Rahul Gandhi. Says there are people who think that they can change the course of their politics with a hug.

► In a healthy democracy, a strong opposition is needed. But, we have a set of people who not only failed in government for 60 long years but also have failed as an opposition

► Why is the Congress not fighting the election on facts? Why are they indulging in spreading lies and abuses.

► There would be no Indian who would not be proud of our Jawans and the Surgical Strike they conducted. But look at Congress. They even mocked our Jawans.