On Saturday, Gorakhpur Lok Sabha candidate Ravi Kishan arrived at a polling booth in Gorakhpur and queued up in line to cast his vote, emphasising that politicians are “servants of the public, not VIPs”.
Kishan said that he was propagating the idea of PM Modi to end the VVIP culture in India.
“This is what our Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taught us that we are servants of the public, we are not VIPs. As soon as PM Modi came, he ended the VIP culture in India by ending the concept of red beacons. When your head is so grounded, then you should remain a common man too. I hold no position above others now and prefer to stay humble. PM Modi has vanished the VIP culture in India and changed the politics of the nation. This is our culture and we should follow it,” Ravi Kishan told ANI.
“I have cast my vote for Viksit Bharat, Ram Rajya and to make India a “Vishwa guru”, Kishan said after casting his vote.
Earlier, in a video message on X, Kishan urged the voters to cast their vote in the “festival of democracy”.
गोरखपुर के सभी मतदाता साथियों का विनम्र अभिवादन नमस्कार एवं प्रणाम,
साथियों आप सभी को विदित होगा की आज लोकसभा आम चुनावों के सातवें चरण के अंतर्गत गोरखपुर में मतदान हो रहा है, इस अवसर पर मेरा आप सभी देवतुल्य गोरखपुर के भाग्य विधाता मतदाताओं से करबद्ध आग्रह है, लोकतंत्र के इस… pic.twitter.com/6q87mbZFJo
— Ravi Kishan (Modi Ka Parivar) (@ravikishann) June 1, 2024
“Friends, you all will be aware that today voting is being held in Gorakhpur under the seventh phase of Lok Sabha general elections. On this occasion, I humbly request all of you, the God-like voters who are the destiny makers of Gorakhpur, to exercise your right to vote in this great festival of democracy by discharging your duty as an aware voter,” Kishan wrote in a post on X.
“Every vote of yours is important and it will decide the future of your Lok Sabha and the country, therefore I once again appeal to all of you to participate enthusiastically in this festival of democracy,” he added.
Gorakpur-based BJP Lok Sabha candidate Ravi Kishan is up against Javed Ashraf of the BSP and Kajal Nishad of the SP. Ravi Kishan is relying on CM Yogi’s backing, as he represented Gorakhpur in the Lok Sabha for five terms.
Prior to this, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath supported BJP candidate Ravi Kishan in Gorakhpur by doing a roadshow.
With a margin of 3,01,664 votes, Kishan defeated Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate Rambhual Nishad in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
The world’s greatest polling marathon, which started on the 19th of last month and has now covered six stages and 486 Lok Sabha seats, comes to a spectacular conclusion with the seventh phase.