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A tight Varanasi race and BJP’s Maharashtra downfall – here’s how India’s 2024 Lok Sabha polls defied expectations.

Explore the political and religious tensions in Varanasi under PM Modi's leadership, raising concerns about secularism and religious freedom in India.

In this episode of Another Election Show from Varanasi, we sat with the students of the city’s Banaras Hindu University to talk about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s representation from the constituency, works of the central government and the local issues.  

Modi is expected to comfortably win his seat, but the margin of victory could reveal how his party is doing nationally.

Varanasi, Banaras, or Kashi has been home to spirituality, music and literature for centuries, with personalities such as Dara Shikoh, Pandit Ravi Shankar and Bismillah Khan associated with the ancient city. But over the past decade, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the incumbent MP from Varanasi, the city has undergone…

Pilot finds piece of paper in lavatory threatening ‘bomb blast in 30 minutes’ just as flight prepares to take off

A bomb threat was reported on an Indigo flight from Delhi to Varanasi early this morning. Read further on Dynamite News:

Why did the Election Commission of India reject comedian Shyam Rangeela’s poll nomination from Varanasi? What rules and judicial precedents are applicable here?

Pawan Kalyan accompanies PM Modi for nomination in Varanasi, expresses confidence in NDA victory.