Varanasi Lok Sabha Election 2024: PM Narendra Modi To Visit Kashi Vishwanath Temple Ahead of Nomination Filing on May 14
Union Minister and BJP candidate from Chandauli Lok Sabha seat Mahendra Nath Pandey expressed confidence in PM Modi winning the seat for another term.
Varanasi, May 12: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi on Monday ahead of his nomination filing on May 14. PM Modi will also hold a roadshow in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency later in the day. Preparations are underway for the PM's roadshow in the constituency.
Union Minister and BJP candidate from Chandauli Lok Sabha seat Mahendra Nath Pandey expressed confidence in PM Modi winning the seat for another term. 'Congress to Get Fewer Seats Than Age of Shehzada': PM Narendra Modi Addresses Public Rally in West Bengal’s Hooghly (Watch Video).
"Varanasi is ready to welcome PM Narendra Modi tomorrow. The voters of Varanasi are ready to cast their vote and make PM Modi win the elections. No other Prime Minister has worked this much for their parliamentary constituency as PM Modi has worked for his parliamentary constituency," Pandey said on PM Modi's visit.
Chandauli MLA Ramesh Jaiswal said, "The whole Kashi is standing with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. I claim that we are definitely going to win the elections." State BJP media head, Dharmendra Singh said that supporters in huge numbers are expected to join the Prime Minister's roadshow. Lok Sabha Elections 2024: PM Narendra Modi Says, 'West Bengal Most Important State in Modi's Mission for Eastern India' While Addressing Rally in Barrackpore (Watch Video).
"It is highly expected that supporters and prominent leaders of the NDA alliance will come to support PM Modi. 5-10 lakh supporters are expected to join PM Modi's roadshow in Kashi," Singh said earlier in the day.
Varanasi is the stronghold of the BJP and PM Modi. He won the seat twice- the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Congress has pitted Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Rai against PM Modi in Varanasi. This is the third time Ajay Rai will face PM Modi in a Lok Sabha contest. The voting in Varanasi will be held on June 1 in the seventh phase.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, PM Modi won the seat with over 674,664 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.
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