Amit Shah, Nitish Kumar, Uddhav Thackeray among NDA bigwigs to join PM Modi in his nomination filing today

PM Modi is slated to file nomination papers at 11.30 am. Ahead of his filing his nomination, Modi will address party workers at 9.30 am and will then visit the Kal Bhairav temple at 11 am.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will file his nomination papers for the Varanasi parliamentary seat on Friday. BJP's several bigwigs including party president Amit Shah, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath and top NDA leaders such as Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) president Nitish Kumar, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) patriarch and former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief and Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan are expected to accompany the Prime Minister. PM Modi is slated to file nomination papers at 11.30 am. Ahead of his filing his nomination, Modi will address party workers at 9.30 am and will then visit the Kal Bhairav temple at 11 am. PM Modi arrived in the culturally and historically rich city on Varanasi on Thursday evening. He held a mega road show from BHU gate to Dashashwamedh ghat on the bank of Ganga river. According to the BJP’s claim, around 6 lakh people took part in the seven km long road show. The Prime Minister commenced his road show by garlanding the statue of Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, the founder of Banaras Hindu University. Wearing a saffron kurta and scarf, the cavalcade of PM Modi was cheered by a huge crowd present on both sides of the road. The roadshow concluded at the famous Dashashwamedh ghat where PM Modi took part in the Ganga aarti and performed a special pooja.