BJP leader Narendra Modi has solved the puzzle of how to reach the world’s largest electorate – to address rallies throughout the country simultaneously as a hologram

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi pictured during a live "3D hologram" telecast in Mumbai Photo: AFP 02 May 2014

  

Narendra Modi’s relentless campaign to be India’s next prime minister has been so frenetic he has often appeared, magically, to have addressed several rallies throughout the country at the same time.

Today his party officials paid tribute to his pioneering use of hologram technology which has allowed him to do just that – speak live to the world’s largest electorate at rallies in dozens of remote towns all over the country as though he were there in the flesh.

It is believed to be the first time hologram technology has been used in a general election campaign – its most popular use to date has been for a posthumous performance by the rapper Tupac Shakur at Coachella in 2012.