Narendra Modi has been the Prime Minister of India since 2014. He is a Lok Sabha member from the Varanasi constituency of Uttar Pradesh. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 282 and 303 seats in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha Elections under the leadership of Narendra Modi. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, PM Modi won the Varanasi seat with a margin of 4,79,505 votes. He was polled 6,74,664 votes and defeated Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate Shalini Yadav who got 1,95,159 votes. In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, Modi contested on BJP ticket from the constituency for the first time and won the seat. He was polled 5,81,022 votes and defeated Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Arvind Kejriwal who got 2,09,238 votes. Modi defeated Kejriwal by a margin of 3,71,784 votes. Modi also won the Vadodara seat in 2014 but decided to retain Varanasi. He was the Gujarat Chief Minister from 2001 to 2014. Modi represented Rajkot II constituency in the Gujarat Assembly in 2002 and Maninagar thrice in a row in 2002, 2007 and 2012. He is again contesting from the Varanasi constituency in the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.
Read MorePrime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a gathering of over 25,000 women in his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi and presented the report card of his government and work done for women. He also slammed the INDIA bloc and called them anti-women.
Earlier, hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for terming the INDIA bloc as the 'Bhanumati's clan', SP chief Akhilesh Yadav claimed that the BJP's clan will disintegrate after June 4.
Amit Shah, during an election rally in Odisha, claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already bagged 310 seats after the completion of five phases of Lok Sabha polls.
Baramulla created history as the voter turnout was more than 58 per cent, registering its highest polling percentage in almost four decades. PM Narendra Modi lauded the people of the Lok Sabha constituency on the occasion and hailed their commitment to democratic values.
Rajiv Gandhi death anniversary: Former PM Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by LTTE cadres at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu in 1991 during an election campaign.
Arvind Kejriwal was accompanied by his wife Sunita for the first time at the poll meeting on Monday. Sunita Kejriwal appealed to the people to vote for AAP to ensure that her husband does not go back to jail. Arvind Kejriwal likened her to Jhansi ki Rani for taking charge of the AAP in his absence.
BJP leader Sambit Patra faced criticism for calling Lord Jagannath a 'devotee' of PM Modi. Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik condemned this as an insult to the revered deity and urged the BJP to keep religion separate from politics.
While addressing a rally on April 29, Samajwadi Party (SP) functionary and Congress leader Salman Khurshid's niece, Maria Alam, called for "Vote Jihad" in favour of the I.N.D.I.A bloc candidate from the Farrukhabad Lok Sabha seat, Naval Kishore Shakya.
PM Modi has affirmed India's commitment to engaging in significant summits aimed at advancing the global agenda for peace, security, and development. He made this statement in reference to his invitations to attend both the G-7 meeting and the upcoming Ukraine peace summit next month.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the improvement in the health of banks will help improve credit availability to our poor, farmers and MSMEs.
PM Modi dispelled myths about the BJP's weakened positioning in Southern India, asserting that the party will sweep the ongoing general elections with a larger margin than before. He also discussed the party's growing influence nationwide and the NDA's confidence in securing over 400 seats.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the BJP has never acted against minorities and he is not ready to accept anyone as "special citizens". His remarks came while responding to a query on Opposition's "polarisation" charge at him at election rallies.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed deep sorrow on Monday following the tragic passing of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, along with the foreign minister and other esteemed officials. State media reported that no survivors were located following the unfortunate helicopter crash.
PM Modi expressed concerns over a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's foreign minister and other officials, apparently crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of Iran on Sunday.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: 49 constituencies are going for polls in the fifth phase on May 20. Voters in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh will use their franchise in the fifth phase.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the BJP will score a victory hattrick by winning all seven seats in the national capital in the upcoming elections. Polling in Delhi will take place in the sixth phase on May 25.
Mallikarjun Kharge said that their alliance is going to win more than 50 per cent of seats in Maharashtra, 7-8 seats in Rajasthan, and 5-6 seats in Madhya Pradesh. Along with this, we are winning 4-5 seats in Chhattisgarh and there is a 50-50 fight between them and NDA, he added.
Pakistan, which has been troubling India since last 70 years and had bombs in its hands, now has a begging bowl. The enemies shiver like this when there is a 'dhaakad' government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in Ambala.
''He is the first PM who praised the Sikhs the most, and he also celebrated Gurpurab with full enthusiasm,'' singer Daler Mehndi praised PM Narendra Modi for the efforts taken by him for the betterment of the Sikh community.
Attacking the BJP, Aaditya Thackeray said that he believes it's the only organisation that was doing politics during the Covid time also, planning on how to break a party when the CM was in hospital. But the problem I have is not that they broke Shiv Sena or NCP, but what the state gained from this.
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