Lok Sabha Elections 2024: PM Modi To File Nomination From Varanasi On May 14

Varanashi: In a significant development, it has been confirmed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will file his nomination papers from the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat on May 14, BJP’s city president Vidyasagar Rai said on Sunday.

Also, PM Modi will hold a roadshow in the constituency, and preparations for a major roadshow are already underway, as per a report by the Financial Express. Notably, the Lok Sabha Elections in Varanasi will be held on June 1, which will be the seventh and last round of the 2024 general elections.

“The route for the roadshow has been finalised. On May 14, Prime Minister Modi will file his nomination from the Varanasi seat,” the BJP’s city president, Vidyasagar Rai, was quoted saying in the report.

PM Modi Likely To Address 2 Rallies In Bengal On May 11-12

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to address two election rallies in West Bengal over the weekend.

The first rally, according to sources in the state unit of the BJP, on May 11 will be in Howrah district in support of the twin party candidates from the district, namely Rathin Chakraborty from Howrah and Arun Uday Pal Chaudhury from Uluberia.

On the next day, party insiders said the Prime Minister will attend a rally at Singur in Hooghly district in support of the three candidates from the district, namely actress-turned-politician and sitting party MP Locket Chatterjee from Hooghly, Arup Kanti Digar from Arambagh and Kabir Shankar Bose from Serampore.

All five constituencies—two in Howrah district and three in Hooghly—will be going to the polls in the fifth phase on May 20.

Of these five constituencies, BJP candidates managed victory only in Hooghly in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, while Trinamool Congress candidates got elected from the remaining four constituencies. However, this time the BJP is confident of victories from some more of these constituencies, especially at Arambagh and Howrah.

On May 3, the Prime Minister addressed three back-to-back rallies in the three districts of East Burdwan, Nadia and Bibhum. In one of the rallies, the Prime Minister even accused the ruling Trinamool Congress of attempting to make Hindus second-class citizens in West Bengal.

He also claimed that the Trinamool Congress is exactly replicating the path of corruption that the UPA government took during its ten-year rule between 2004 and 2014.

(With inputs from agencies)