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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while filing his nomination from the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency on Tuesday, also revealed owning assets worth Rs 3.02 crore, most of which is in the form of deposits with banks. The Prime Minister’s affidavit revealed that he neither owns any plot of land, nor any cars or other vehicles.
In the affidavit, bulk of the Prime Minister’s total assets include a fixed deposit worth Rs 2.86 crore with the State Bank of India. His total cash in hand is Rs 52,920 and he has Rs 80,304 in two bank accounts in Gandhinagar and Varanasi.
PM Modi also has Rs 9.12 lakh as an investment in National Savings Certificates and also owns four gold rings worth Rs 2.68 lakh. His income went up to Rs 23.56 lakh in 2022-23 from Rs 11.14 lakh in 2018-19.
On Tuesday, PM Modi was accompanied by Pandit Ganeshwar Shastri Dravid, who had decided the date and time for the consecration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, for filing his nomination.
Affidavit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi by Express Web on Scribd
District Magistrate S Rajalingam collected the papers from Modi who, in a post later on X, said, “Filed my nomination papers as a candidate for the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat. It is an honour to serve the people of this historic seat. With the blessings of the people, there have been remarkable achievements over the last decade. This pace of work will get even faster in the times to come.”
Among those at the Collectorate premises for Modi’s nomination were BJP president J P Nadda, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, party state president Bhupendra Chaudhary, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav and a host of NDA leaders including Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, TDP leader and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan.
The proposers for Modi were Pandit Dravid, party workers and leaders Sanjay Sonkar, Lalchand Kushwaha and Baijnath Patel. While Sonkar is a Dalit, Patel and Khushwaha are OBC while Dravid is a Brahmin.
