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.
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Mann Ki Baat: PM Modi is addressing the 99th edition of 'Mann Ki Baat' that commenced at 11 AM today.
Uttar Pradesh: PM Modi launched various initiatives including the TB-Mukt Panchayat initiative in Varanasi today.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Varanasi on March 24 on a day long visit, where he will address the One World TB Summit and dedicate and lay the foundation stone of various projects worth more than Rs 1,780 crore.
Notably, the meeting was arranged on the same day when Chinese President Xi Jinping met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow with a Ukraine peace plan.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was seen being corrected by Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh over one of his statements during the presser.
The Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone of the country's first urban transport ropeway. A project for which the people of Kashi have been waiting for a long time.
The day the Prime Minister sent Manish Sisodia to jail, I felt it is absolutely necessary to have an educated prime minister in the country to understand the importance of education, Arvind Kejriwal said.
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said that the country is lagging behind in the International Electoral Index and Rahul Gandhi talked about strengthening it.
Union Minister Giriraj Singh said that the Congress party is planning to target PM Modi. He said the 'tukde-tukde' gang is fully functional to finish PM Modi and the Congress is leading it.
It is unfortunate that in London questions were raised on India's democracy. No power in this world can harm India's democratic traditions, but some are making it stand in the dock, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in Karnataka.
The Supreme Court had formed a committee to investigate the matter. The committee had found lapses in the police and administrative officers in Punjab.
Attacks on Temple: Day after PM Modi raised concern over the recent incidents of attacks on temples in Australia, the Australian PM Anthony Albanese assured that they will not tolerate attacks on religious buildings.
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today conveyed to his Australian counterpart India's concerns over the attacks on temples in Australia.
The US Intelligence report slammed Pakistan as it mentioned that Islamabad has a long history of supporting anti-India militant groups. But under the leadership of PM Modi, India is more likely to respond with military force to perceived or real Pakistani provocations.
MK Stalin's letter has come days after 9 opposition parties wrote a letter to the Prime Minister on the arrest of Manish Sisodia alleging "blatant misuse of central agencies".
PM Modi was briefed about the forecast of monsoon, impact on Rabi crops, preparedness of medical infrastructure, and preparation for disaster-related heat and mitigation measures, PMO said.
Raghuram Rajan said he's worried that earlier we would be lucky if we hit 5 per cent growth. The latest October-December Indian GDP numbers (4.4 per cent on year ago and 1 per cent relative to the previous quarter) suggest slowing growth from the heady numbers in the first half of the year.
Several media reports say that Rahul Gandhi is likely to address the British Parliament in the Grand Committee Room of the Palace of Westminister.
Further speaking on the BBC documentary, Rahul Gandhi said that if they (BBC) stop writing against the government, everything will go back to normal, all the cases will disappear, and everything will go back to normal.
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