Prime Minister Narendra Modi filed hi nomination from Varanasi on Tuesday for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

In a now-viral video, Prime Minister Modi entering the district magistrate’s office with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at his side and giving the magistrate his documents. The officer extends a warm greeting to PM Modi, takes the paperwork with grace, and gives him a seat. PM Modi was also accompained by a priest into the officer’s chamber.

PM Modi’s nomination-filing event in Varanasi was attended by a number of BJP and ally leaders, including  Madhya Pradesh CM Mohan Yadav, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar. There were also Apna Dal (S) president Anupriya Patel, SBSP president Om Prakash Rajbhar, RLD chairman Jayant Chaudhary, and LJP leader Chirag Paswan.

In 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi contested for the Lok Sabha from Varanasi for the first time. He is currently engaged in combat from the most significant Hindu spiritual hub for the third time.

This time, he is contesting against Athar Ali Lari of the Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) and Ajai Rai of the Congress party. Modi won the seat by about 4.8 lakh votes in the 2019 election, a significant increase above his 3.72 lakh victory margin in 2014.

The BJP has won eight times from Varanasi since 1991, the only other time when the Congress won from that seat was RK Mishra in 2004. Varanasi will go under polls on June 1 in the seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha election.

The resultion for 2024 Lok Sabha election will be announced on June 4.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Modi’s four proposers for his nomination are Brahmin Pandit Ganeshwar Shastri, an OBC member; former RSS volunteer Baijnath Patel; OBC member Lalchand Kushwaha; and Dalit Sanjay Sonkar.

Earlier in the day, PM Modi offered prayers at the popular Dashashwamedh Ghat on the banks of the sacred Ganga river before to submitting his nomination. He went to the historic Kaal Bhairav temple as well.

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday for trying to establish a dictatorial rule in the country and said fear of humiliation kept him away from the Ram Temple inauguration in Ayodhya. The Congress president said he did not attend the pran-pratishtha ceremony at the Ram Mandir earlier this year due to fear of being humiliated as he is from the Dalit community.

Kharge was addressing a Lok Sabha election rally in Jharkhand at Netarhat, in Chatra parliamentary constituency. He also asked why wasn’t President Murmu, who is a tribal, invited for the opening of the Parliament building or the Pran Pratishtha at Ram Temple in Ayodhya? He asked why was wasn’t former President Ramnath Kovind, who is a Dalit, invited to the foundation-stone-laying ceremony of the Parliament building?

Kharge said he received an invitation for the Ram Mandir but gave it a miss, as he feared they would have kept doing shuddhi of the premises soon afterwards. He also claimed that he would not have been allowed to go near the idol.

The opposition leader slammed Modi for claiming that he had made a tribal woman or a Dalit man the president. He accused Modi for not inviting them to the Ram Temple Pran Pratishtha as he thought that he will become impure by doing so. Kharge appealed to the voters to rise above caste and community before it is too late.

Kharge said the ongoing elections are strategic for the country, its constitution, democracy and existence. He urged the voters not to allow a dictatorial regime and gave the example tribal chief minister Hemant Soren who has been imprisoned in false cases as he did not bow before BJP.

Hemat Soren’s wife Kalpana Soren said when the BJP denied (the voters) houses and pension, the Hemant led state government launched a housing scheme to provide houses to the poor and the universal pension scheme. She said this was the reason why the BJP tried to dislodge him in fake cases

Weeks after several schools in the national capital and other major Indian cities reported receiving bomb hoax emails, at least four hospitals in Delhi received bomb threat calls this morning.

The Delhi Fire Department reported that bomb threat calls have been received by the Delhi State Cancer Institute near the GTB Hospital, Dada Dev Hospital in Dabri, Hedgewar Hospital, and Deep Chandra Bandhu Hospital. The fire department stated that the calls are being investigated.

The list also included two government hospitals, Sanjay Gandhi Hospital in Mangolpuri and Burari Government Hospital, which received similar emails. However, the Delhi Police has launched investigation in this matter.

A number of bomb hoaxes have been recorded in recent weeks, coinciding with nationwide security increases due to the upcoming elections.

On May 1, hoax bomb emails were sent to almost 100 schools in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR), frightening parents and school administrators.

Email bomb threats were sent to seven schools in Ahmedabad on May 6. Sources said that servers bearing Russian IP addresses were used to send the emails. However, bomb disposal squads searched and discovered nothing suspicious.

On Sunday, several addresses, including major hospitals in the city, as well as the Delhi airport received emails containing similar bomb threats. It was later discovered that the threats were false.

Four Jaipur schools got bomb threats via email yesterday. The youngsters were sent home right away, and sniffer dogs and the explosives squad were sent in.

The email was referred to as a hoax in an official statement by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).