PM Narendra Modi to contest Lok Sabha elections 2019 from Varanasi timesnownews.com

PM Narendra Modi to contest Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi. The decision was taken in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentary board meeting on Friday. Senior BJP leaders including PM Modi, party president Amit Shah met at the party's New Delhi today where the crucial decision was taken. PM Modi contested from Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi and his home state Gujarat's Vadodara in 2014 and won both of them with a landslide margin. In 2014, the Prime Minister won Vadodara by a margin of 5,70,128 votes and secured 8,45,464 votes of the total 11.63 lakh votes polled in the constituency. He won Varanasi by a margin of Other veteran BJP leaders such as Arun Jaitley, Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj, Venkaiah Naidu and Shivraj Singh Chouhan met on Friday to discuss the election strategy ahead of Lok Sabha polls 2019.