Narendra Modi files nomination from Varanasi: Flanked by allies, PM demonstrates NDA is no 'one-man show'
FirstpostBefore entering the Returning Officer’s room to file his nomination papers as a BJP candidate, Prime Minister Narendra Modi waited for around half an hour at the district magistrate’s office. He had reached there a bit early, not by chance, but as per a well-coordinated plan Before entering the Returning Officer’s room to file his nomination papers as a BJP candidate, Prime Minister Narendra Modi waited for around half an hour at the district magistrate’s office. A day later when Sonia filed her nomination papers as a Congress candidate, she took a leaf out of Modi’s 2014 poll strategy: Hold a roadshow and file nomination papers on a day when polling was in progress in other parts of the state and country. On Friday, when Modi went to file his nomination papers, he was accompanied by four persons from varied social strata and communities — Annapurna Shukla, Jagdish Raja, Subhash Chandra Gupta and Ramashankar Patel.