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Congress & SP attack Modi over low victory margin from Varanasi Lok Sabha seat

By Our Special Correspondent

New Delhi, June 11: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s narrow victory margins from the Varanasi parliamentary constituency continues to invite fresh doses of spin in Uttar Pradesh. Former president of the Congress, Rahul Gandhi, on Tuesday asserted that Modi could have been defeated in Varanasi.

“Modi would have lost from Varanasi Lok Sabha seat if sister (Priyanka Gandhi Vadra) had contested against the prime minister,” said Gandhi in Rae Bareli on Tuesday.

The Congress leader was in Rae Bareli on Tuesday. Vadra also accompanied him. Gandhi won the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat.

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“If sister (Vadra) had contested from the Varanasi parliamentary seat, Modi would have lost the Lok Sabha elections by 2-3 lakh votes,” said Gandhi.

The Ghazipur Lok Sabha MP of the Samajwadi Party, Afzal Ansari, also added to the buzzing grapevine on the victory margin of the prime minister from Varanasi. “The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost all the three adjoining Lok Sabha seats which surround the Varanasi parliamentary constituency,” Ansari told reporters on Tuesday.

The SP MP credited Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for ensuring the victory of Modi from the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat. “Yogi Adityanath camped in Varanasi in the last phase of the Lok Sabha elections. He rallied the party workers to back the prime minister in the elections,” added Ansari.

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The BJP lost 33 Lok Sabha seats from Uttar Pradesh. The BJP had won a total of 64 Lok Sabha seats in the 2019 elections.

Scores of Union ministers in the second tenure of the BJP government at the Centre lost the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh. Former Union Minister Smriti Irani lost the Lok Sabha elections from the Amethi parliamentary seat.

Union Minister Sanjeev Balyan also lost the Lok Sabha elections from Muzaffarnagar. The BJP veteran leader Maneka Gandhi also lost the elections from the Sultanpur Lok Sabha seat.

Incidentally, the BJP also lost a number of Lok Sabha seats in Bihar which adjoin the Varanasi parliamentary constituency.

Buxar, known as ‘Chota Kashi’ also disappointed the BJP. Mithilesh Tiwari of the BJP lost the Lok Sabha elections from Buxar with a narrow margin of votes.

Union Minister RK Singh lost the Lok Sabha elections from the Arra parliamentary seat. Arra is an adjoining district of Buxar.

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