Varanasi: “Grateful to party”, says Sanjay Sonkar, PM Modi’s proposer

Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 14 (ANI): Ahead of filing nomination from Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency, Sanjay Sonkar, who is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proposer for nomination, expressed gratitude to the BJP for assigning him with such a big responsibility.

PM Modi the sitting MP and BJP’s candidate is set to file his nomination papers from the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat for the 2024 general elections, from where he has secured wins with large margins for the past two consecutive terms.

“…I am very grateful to all of you (media). I received blessings from my parents in the morning. I am ready to be PM Modi’s proposer. We received the information in the morning,” Sonkar told ANI ahead of the latter’s nomination filing from the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency.

“As a humble party worker, I have been discharging the responsibilities of the party. I am grateful to the party for bestowing me with such an honour,” He added.

Replying to a query, he said, “PM Modi always says that the party moves forward with ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas. I believe in this slogan. And that is why I have been chosen as a proposer.

PM Modi is seeking a third term and hoping for a record margin.

Varanasi goes in for polling on June 1 in the seventh and last phase of the general elections.

Varanasi is the stronghold of the Bharatiya Janata Party and PM Modi. He won the seat twice- the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The Congress has pitted Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Rai against PM Modi in Varanasi. This is the third time Ajay Rai will face PM Modi in the Lok Sabha contest.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, PM Modi won the seat with over 6,74,664 votes and commanded a vote share of 63.6 per cent. In 2014, PM Modi contested two Lok Sabha seats- from Gujarat’s Vadodara and Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi.