New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi filed his nomination for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi on Tuesday after prayers at the iconic Dashashwamedh Ghat on banks of Ganga River and Kaal Bhairav Temple.
Earlier in the day, the PM took to X and wrote, “My relationship with my Kashi is incredible, inseparable, and amazing. All I can say is it cannot be expressed in words! (Apni Kashi se mera rishta adbhut hai, abhinna hai aur apratim hai.. bas yahi kah sakta hoon ki ise shabdo mein vyakt nahin kiya jaa shakta! )”
The Prime Minister held a six-km roadshow accompanied by many senior BJP leaders and also from alliance parties in the city on Monday evening.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adiyanath, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, BJP president JP Nadda, SBSP Chief Om Prakash Rajbhar and many other senior leaders are also in Varanasi.
A BJP bastion, the party has been winning from Varanasi since 1991 except in 2004 when Congress candidate R.K. Mishra won from the seat.
Varanasi will go to polls in the last phase of Lok Sabha elections on June 1. Modi is contesting from Varanasi for the third time. In 2014, he won by a margin of 3.72 lakh, and in 2019, he won by 4.8 lakh votes.