Ex-Ally Or Debutant - INDIA's Big Plan To Defeat PM In Varanasi: Sources
NDTV
Sources have told NDTV two names have been proposed so far - Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) boss Nitish Kumar, and Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
The INDIA opposition bloc is considering a list of political superstars to challenge Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Lok Sabha constituency of Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi, sources told NDTV Wednesday, a day after the group met in Delhi to discuss the thorny subject of seat-sharing.
Varanasi has voted for the BJP in every election since 1991 (except for 2004) and sent Mr Modi to the Lok Sabha in 2014 and 2019, the second time with a mandate in excess of 60 per cent.
The Congress held the temple town for a decade from 1952 but only intermittently since, and the INDIA bloc faces a nearly impossible task in wresting the seat from the Prime Minister's grasp.
