Varanasi Lok Sabha Election: 6 candidates are contesting against PM in Varanasi, there will be a direct contest between Narendra Modi and Ajay Rai

Varanasi Lok Sabha Election 2024. UP's Varanasi Lok Sabha seat is the hottest seat in the country. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is contesting from this seat for the third time. There are six candidates in the fray against him. Under the SP-Congress alliance, Congress has fielded Ajay Rai from this seat. Bahujan Samaj Party has declared Athar Jamal Lari as its candidate here. There is a contest between Narendra Modi and Ajay Rai on this seat.
Let us tell you that this time in 2024, there are only six candidates in the election fray against PM Modi. While 41 candidates had filed nominations from this seat, out of which 33 candidates' nominations were cancelled and one candidate withdrew his nomination. In this way, a total of seven candidates including PM Modi are in the fray in Varanasi. These include the name of alliance candidate Ajay Rai. If we talk about the last two elections, 26 candidates tried their luck in the year 2019. In this election, SP's Shalini Rai stood second. In 2014, a total of 42 candidates were in the electoral fray from Varanasi, in this election, Arvind Kejriwal of Aam Aadmi Party stood second.
There are 7 candidates in the fray in Varanasi
Let us tell you that Varanasi Lok Sabha seat is considered a stronghold of BJP. BJP has been winning this seat continuously since 1991. However, Rajesh Kumar Mishra of Congress was able to win only once in 2004. Most of the voters in this area are upper castes. These include Brahmins, Bhumihars and Jaiswals, apart from these, Muslims and OBCs are also in large numbers. In this election 2024, apart from Narendra Modi of BJP and Ajay Rai of Congress, five more candidates are included. These include Athar Jamal Lari of Bahujan Samaj Party, Kolisetti Shiv Kumar of Yug Tulsi Party, Gagan Prakash Yadav from Apna Dal Kamerawadi, independent candidate Dinesh Kumar Yadav and independent candidate Sanjay Kumar are in the fray.
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Direct contest between Narendra Modi and Ajay Rai
In the last phase of the Lok Sabha elections, everyone's eyes are on PM Modi's Varanasi seat. PM Modi has entered the electoral battlefield to score a hattrick of victories, while Congress' Ajay Rai, who has scored a hattrick of defeats on the Varanasi seat, is trying his luck for the fourth time. Ajay Rai, who has contested against PM Modi twice and on the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat thrice, has been at the third position every time, but this time his 'numbers' may be good. The reason for this is that the SP-Congress alliance and India Alliance are joint candidates. In such a situation, this time Ajay Rai is in direct competition with PM Modi.

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