BJP Prime Ministerial Candidate Narendra Modi to Contest from Varanasi,Uttar Pradesh for the 2014 Lok Sabha Election Saturday March 15,2014

On Saturday March 15,2014, the BJP announced that Narendra Modi would contest from the Varanasi seat while Murali Manohar Joshi has been shifted to Kanpur against Congress's Sriprakash Jaiswal

BJP president Rajnath Singh had told Mail Today: "Modi's popularity and his influence in galvanising the cadres and party workers cannot be questioned. His presence in Uttar Pradesh will be decisive and this is also the feeling among party workers in the state." 

Varanasi is at the centre of BJP's Uttar Pradesh and Bihar policyand that is the reason the RSS has been backing Modi for the seat.

This seat has been strategically planned to have its impact on at least 74 parliamentary seats with Varanasi as the epicentre. 

The 74 Lok Sabha seats are scattered over eastern Uttar Pradesh (20), Bihar (40) and Jharkhand (14), and the BJP's poll prospects will be influenced immensely with Modi fighting from the historic Hindutva stronghold

Delhi Parliament Constituencies Candidates Announced

Saturday's BJP Candidates list threw up surprising names for Delhi's 7 constituencies
Chandni Chowk - Sitting Krishna Nagar MLA and Delhi BJP president Dr Harsh Vardhan

North East Delhi -Bhojpuri Singer Manoj Tiwari 

West Delhi -Sitting Mehrauli MLA Pravesh Verma 

South Delhi -Ramesh Bidhuri 

New Delhi -Meenakshi Lekhi

North West -

East Delhi -

 

Members of Muslim Mahila Foundation distribute sweets after the announcement of Narendra Modi's name for Varanasi seat