Tejasvi Surya to Hibi Eden: Young stars who made their mark with huge wins

Known for his firebrand speeches, Tejasvi Surya, 28, has become the Bharatiya Janata Party’s youngest MP, defeating Congress’s B K Hariprasad in the Bangalore South constituency by 331,000 votes. 

In West Bengal, Trinamool Congress’s Mimi Chakraborty, an actor, registered a big victory from the Jadavpur seat with 688,000 votes against BJP’s Anupam Hazra. Nusrat Jahan, another actor who fought on a TMC ticket, was on her way to victory from Basirhat, with 718,000 votes, when this paper went to press.

Prajwal Revanna, son of Karnataka’s PWD minister H D Revanna, won from Hassan seat. He turned out to be the only face saver for the HD Deve Gowda family. 

A political worker from Kerala, Ramya Haridas, won from the reserved constituency of Alathur with a margin of over 158,000 votes. Congress-led UDF candidate Hibi Eden, who is also a sitting MLA in Ernakulam, and Dean Kuriakose, were the other candidates who emerged victorious.

                               

Tejasvi Surya, 28, BJP

 

Constituency: Bangalore South (Karnataka), 

Political worker 

Mimi Chakraborty, 30, AITC

 

Constituency: Jadavpur, (West Bengal)

Actor 

Nusrat Jahan Ruhi, 29, Trinamool Congress

Nusrat Jahan Ruhi

 

Constituency: Basirhat,  (West Bengal) 

Actor 

Prajwal Revanna, 28, JD(S) 

Prajwal Revanna

 

Constituency: Hassan, (Karnataka) 

H D Deve Gowda’s grandson  

Ramya Haridas, 32, INC

Ramya Haridas

 

Constituency: Alathur, (Kerala)

Political worker  

Hibi Eden, 36, INC

Hibi Eden

Constituency: Ernakulam, (Kerala) 

MLA  

Dean Kuriakose, 37, INC

Dean Kuriakose

 

Constituency: Idukki, (Kerala)

Advocate and youth leader