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Varanasi, June 04 (HS). BJP candidate Prime Minister Narendra Modi has won for the third consecutive time from the country's most high profile Varanasi Lok Sabha seat. Prime Minister Modi defeated his nearest rival Ajay Rai by 1,52,513 votes. While the margin of victory of Prime Minister Modi was much less than the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he also got fewer votes than the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. As soon as the Prime Minister's hat-trick victory was announced, BJP workers came out on the streets to celebrate. The workers expressed their happiness by bursting firecrackers and feeding sweets to each other. However, the senior leaders of the party also looked disappointed due to the fear of being reprimanded as the margin of victory was not big. Earlier, in the counting of votes that started at 8 am amid tight security at the counting center in Pahadia, the Prime Minister was ahead in the initial trends of counting of postal ballots, but after counting of postal ballots, in the first phase of counting of EVM votes, he lagged behind Indi alliance candidate Ajay Rai by more than 6000 votes. In the second round he took the lead by a slight margin and this trend continued till the 30th round. During the round wise counting, Ajay Rai of Indi alliance was seen fighting strongly in every round. This trend continued in every round. In the 30th and final round, BJP candidate Prime Minister Narendra Modi got 612970 votes, Ajay Rai of Indi alliance got 460457 votes and Athar Jamal Lari of BSP got 33766 votes.
It is worth noting that in the 2014 elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the then BJP candidate, got a total of 581022 votes and Arvind Kejriwal of Aam Aadmi Party, who came second, got 209238 votes. In the election, Ajay Rai of Congress got 75614 votes, CA Vijay Prakash of BSP got 60579 and Kailash Chaurasia of SP got 45291 votes. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the voters of Kashi gave a huge majority to Prime Minister Modi. He got a total of 6,74,664 votes. Samajwadi Party candidate Shalini Yadav came second. Shalini Yadav got 1,95,159 votes. Shalini Yadav has now joined BJP. In 2019, Ajay Rai came third for the third consecutive time and got 1,52,548 votes. Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a big victory for the second time by a margin of 4,79,505 votes. Even then, voting took place in Varanasi in the last phase of the Lok Sabha elections. Prime Minister Modi had secured 56.37 percent votes. The rising popularity of the BJP due to the Balakot airstrike after the Pulwama attack had a major contribution in this.