Kochi, March 20 -- On his second visit to Kerala in just a span of five days, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a massive roadshow in Palakkad town on Tuesday as part of efforts to give a fillip to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) campaign for the Lok Sabha elections in Kerala.

Starting the day at around 10.45 am, PM Modi climbed aboard a campaign jeep at the Anchuvilakku junction in the town and led the roadshow through a heavily barricaded road with hundreds of BJP supporters, raising party slogans and throwing flowers in the air from both sides.

The PM was accompanied in the vehicle by Palakkad BJP candidate C Krishnakumar, Ponnani BJP candidate Nivedita Subramaniyan and state party president K Surendran.

The party estimated that ar...