PM Modi files nomination from Varanasi seats today for seventh phase Lok Sabha Election 2024: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will file nomination for the Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi seat for the third time today i.e. on Tuesday, May 14. Voting on Varanasi seat is to be held in the seventh i.e. last phase on June 1. Today is also the last day for filing nominations for the seventh phase of elections. Opposition alliance candidate Ajay Rai and BSP candidate Athar Jamal Lari filed nominations for this seat on Friday. UP Congress State President Ajay Rai is contesting the VVIP Varanasi seat for the fourth time. On the last day, there are discussions about the nomination of famous comedian Shyam Rangeela on this seat.
After filing nomination, PM Modi will contest Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi seat for the third consecutive time. Earlier, he was elected MP from the same seat in 2014 and 2019. If PM Modi wins from Varanasi seat this time, it will be his hat-trick.
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Many veterans will be included in PM Modi’s nomination
There are reports of Chief Ministers of many states participating in PM Modi’s nomination. In which UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, Madhya Pradesh CM Mohan Yadav, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma, Rajasthan CM Bhajanlal Sharma, Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Dev Sai, Haryana CM Naib Singh Saini, Goa CM Pramod Sawant, Tripura CM Manik Saha, Sikkim CM Prem Singh Tamang, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami will be included. Apart from this, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh will also be included in the nomination. Along with this, leaders of NDA’s allies will also participate. In this, Lok Dal national president Jayant Chaudhary, LJP chief Chirag Paswan, Apna Dal (S) president Anupriya Patel, SBSP president Omprakash Rajbhar, Jitan Ram Manjhi, TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu will also be present during the nomination.
On Monday, a day before nomination, PM Modi conducted a 6 kilometer long road show in Kashi city. Seeing the enthusiastic welcome and love of the people of Varanasi during the road show, PM Modi expressed his gratitude to them and said through a post on social media platform X, ‘Kashi is special, the warmth and affection of the people here is incredible.
Many people are showing willingness to contest elections on Varanasi seat.
All are showing their desire to contest the Lok Sabha elections on the country’s most popular Varanasi seat. During the last one week, a large number of people from different parts of the country arrived to file nomination for this seat. Voting is to be held on Varanasi seat in the seventh and final phase of Lok Sabha elections. The nomination process for the final phase starts from Tuesday 7th May. The last day for filing nominations is today i.e. Tuesday 14th May, scrutiny of nomination papers will be done on 15th May and 17th May is the last day for withdrawal of nominations. Voting for this phase will take place on June 1.
Ajay Rai is in the fray for the fourth time from Varanasi.
Congress state president Ajay Rai filed nomination for the fourth consecutive time from Varanasi Lok Sabha seat. This time he has filed nomination as a Congress Party candidate under the Congress-Samajwadi Party alliance. Ajay Rai contested the elections for the first time in 2009. Ajay Rai, a native of Malsa in Ghazipur district, graduated from Kashi Vidyapeeth in 1989. After the deal was finalized regarding seat-sharing between SP and Congress in UP, the Congress party had shown interest in fielding a candidate from the Varanasi seat.
Rangeela’s big allegation on Election Commission, not ready to take the filled form
Shyam Rangeela has made a big allegation against the Election Commission. In a post on social media platform (X), he has shared a letter addressed to the Election Commission. Written in the letter – Not only me but many candidates are being stopped from filing nomination in Varanasi parliamentary constituency. Earlier in another post, Shyam Rangeela said that today he has seen the strangulation of democracy with his own eyes, I am not a leader but a comedian, still I went out to file nomination, I thought whatever will happen will be seen, but I did not think about what is happening. Apparently, there were proposers, the form was also filled, but no one was ready to take it, we will try again on Tuesday.
Today I have seen with my own eyes the strangulation of democracy, I am not a leader but a comedian, yet I went out to file nomination, thought whatever would happen would be seen, but what is happening was neither thought of nor seen.
There were proponents, the form was also filled, but no one was ready to take it, will try again tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/Uf6VZNK4sJ— Shyam Rangeela (@ShyamRangeela) May 13, 2024
Apart from Varanasi, voting will be held on these seats of UP on June 1.
In this phase, voting will be held for 13 Lok Sabha seats and one assembly by-election in Uttar Pradesh. Apart from Varanasi, the 13 seats of UP where voting is to be held in the last phase include Mirzapur, Ghazipur, Ballia, Chandauli, Gorakhpur, Deoria, Kushinagar, Maharajganj, Bansgaon (SC), Ghosi, Salempur and Robertsganj (SC) seats. These 13 Lok Sabha constituencies fall under 11 districts of the state – Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Deoria, Mau, Ballia, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Varanasi, Mirzapur and Sonbhadra. There are 2.49 crore voters to vote on 13 seats in the seventh phase. Of which 1.32 crore are men and 1.17 crore are women. There are a total of 14,183 polling stations and 25,658 polling booths in these constituencies.
