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Snapshot of the day

May 14, 2024

Siddharth Varadarajan

Narendra Modi filed his election nomination from Varanasi today, where he is expected to win comfortably. After being thwarted yesterday, comedian and Modi-mimic Shyam Rangeela also managed to get his camel of a candidature through the eye of the local administration’s needle with just a few hours to spare. What is funnier, though? The sight of overzealous, committed babus doing their best to prevent a stand-up comic from raining on the Dear Leader’s parade. Or the absurd lie Modi told a gullible reporter today about his controversial hate speech on May 1 when he