Modi to contest Lok Sabha polls from Gujarat, not UP?

November 13, 2013 08:56

CNN-IBN reports: Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will be contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha election from his home state and not Uttar Pradesh as was being speculated earlier. Sources say that the BJP has decided not to put up Modi as a candidate from Uttar Pradesh.

Modi will contest the election from a constituency in Gujarat. Earlier, the party had earlier indicated that Modi may fight from Uttar Pradesh.

It was presumed that Modi may contest from Kanpur, Lucknow or Varanasi but now sources confirm that he will be contesting from his native state.

It was also rumoured that BJP's in-charge of UP and Modi's close-aide Amit Shah would look for the constituency from where Modi will contest polls and put in all the resources for that

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