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PM Modi Offers Prayers At Dashashwamedh Ghat In Varanasi Ahead Of Filing Lok Sabha Nomination

News On Time Desk 14 May 2024

Varanasi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered prayers at Dashashwamedh Ghat on the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi before filling his nomination from the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat today in Uttar Pradesh.

PM Modi the sitting MP and BJP’s candidate will file his nomination papers from the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat for the 2024 general elections, from where he has secured wins with large margins for the past two consecutive terms.

Earlier on Monday, he held a dazzling roadshow in his constituency and vowed to do a lot more to serve the holy city in his third term.

Varanasi goes in for polling on June 1 in the seventh and last phase of the general elections.

PM Modi posted on X about his association with the city. “My relationship with my Kashi is amazing, inseparable and incomparable… all I can say is that it cannot be expressed in words!”

Security has been strengthened outside the office of the District Magistrate in Varanasi ahead of PM Modi’s nomination.

Varanasi is the stronghold of the Bharatiya Janata Party and PM Modi. He won the seat twice- the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections. In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, PM Modi won the seat with over 6,74,664 votes and commanded a vote share of 63.6 per cent. In 2014, PM Modi contested two Lok Sabha seats- from Gujarat’s Vadodara and Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi.