13 Ex-Cms Enter Lok Sabha, Eight Falter
Thirteen former Chief Ministers will be making their presence felt in the 12th Lok Sabha, but eight of their counterparts failed to get a ticket to Parliament in the elections.
The list of former Chief Ministers making it to the Lok Sabha, however, does not include former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, who had resigned as Karnataka Chief Minister to take over the premiership, and defence minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, who had resigned from the top post in Uttar Pradesh at one point of time.
The former Chief Ministers in Lok Sabha will be an additional feature besides the presence of three former Prime Ministers Deve Gowda, Chandrashekhar and BJPs candidate for premiership Atal Behari Vajpayee. Besides, Prime Minister I K Gujral have also won from his Jallandhar seat.
Of the 13 former CMs, nine represent the Congress, one-third of them coming from Andhra Pradesh, two from Maharashtra and one each from Haryana, Goa, Madhya Pradesh and Kerala.
Rashtriya Janata Dals Laloo Prasad Yadav, one of his predecessors in Bihar Abdul Ghafoorr, BJPs Madal Lal Khurana (Delhi), BSPs Mayawati (UP) and Akali Dals Surjeet Singh Barnala (Punjab) make up the list.
Among the eight former Chief Ministers who failed to make it to the Lok Sabha, three are from Madhya Pradesh, two from Karnataka and one each from Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan.
The Lok Sabha elections also saw 10 ministers losing at the hustings, four of them swallowed by the BJP-AIADMK wave in Tamil Nadu while 10 of their colleagues managed to emerge victorious.
The Lok Sabha will also have 38 former Union ministers while another 31 failed to get the electorates nod.
Two former governors BJPs Jagmohan and Congress P R Kyndiah are also among the winners.
Leading the former Chief Ministers in Lok Sabha will be Maratha strongman Sharad Pawar, who won by three lakh votes from Baramati, along with his successor Sudhakar Rao Naik, also a former governor, from Washim.
K Vijaybhaskar Reddy, who won by over 12,000 votes, N Janardhan Reddy and N Bhaskar Rao from Andhra Pradesh will adorn the Congress bench along with Motilal Vora, also a former governor and winner from Rajnandgaon in Madhya Pradesh, k Karunakaran from Thiruvananthapuram, Bhajan Lal from Karnal and Ravi Naik, who trounced law minister Ramakant Khalap in Panaji.