NEW DELHI: As per early trends based on the data available on the Election Commission’s website, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is leading in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi constituency with more than 60,000 votes.
Congress candidate Ajay Rai is trailing.
The Varanasi Lok Sabha seat is one of the most important constituencies among the total of 543 parliamentary seats with Modi aiming for a third consecutive victory since choosing it as a launchpad in 2014 as the Prime Ministerial candidate of the BJP.
In 2019, the Prime Minister polled 6,74,664 votes, which is roughly 63 percent of the total votes polled, as his nearest rival Shalini Yadav of the secured 1,95,159 votes with the PM emerging victorious by over 4,78,000 votes.
On the other hand, Rai who contested as a Congress candidate, polled 1,52,548 votes. He had also contested the 2014 Lok Sabha polls against Modi and came third polling 75,614 votes.
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