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BJP's C R Patil wins by 6.89 lakh votes, biggest victory margin in 2019 elections
Two-time BJP MP C R Patil Thursday came close to surpassing the all-time victory margin in Lok Sabha polls as he won the Navsari seat in Gujarat by garnering 6.89 lakh more votes than his rival -- the highest margin in 2019 polls. So far, the highest victory margin of 6.96 lakh votes in Lok Sabha polls belongs to Pritam Munde, who won the by-election to Beed seat in Maharashtra in October 2014. The by-poll was necessitated after the death of her father and senior BJP leader Gopitnath Munde. Patil has party colleagues Sanjay Bhatia, Krishan Pal and Subhash Chandra Baheria in the 6 lakh-plus club, while about a dozen other candidates have won by over 5 lakh margin. Prime Minister Narendra Modi widened his victory margin to 4.79 lakh votes when he defeated his nearest rival of Shalini Yadav of Samajwadi Party in Varanasi parliamentary constituency. In 2014, he had defeated Arvind Kejeriwal by 3.71 lakh votes. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah won his maiden Lok Sabha ...
Bengal's BJP chief Dilip Ghosh wins Medinipur LS seat
BJP's West Bengal President Dilip Ghosh won the Medinipur Lok Sabha seat defeating Trinamool Congress' Manas Bhunia on Thursday.
BJP decimates ruling Cong-JDS coalition in Karnataka
: Steamrolling the ruling Congress-JDS alliance, the BJP Thursday scored a resounding win in Karnataka, bagging 25 out of the total 28 Lok Sabha seats in an outcome that left the one-year old Kumaraswamy government in a tizzy over its stability. With the BJP dealing a hammer blow, Congress and JD(S) managed to win only one seat each, indicating that neither arithmetic nor chemistry worked for the two, which apparently failed to reconcile with each other at the ground level. This is said to be the worst ever performance by Congress in Karnataka and a record of sorts by BJP, for which Karnataka emerged as the bright spot in the South with other neighbouring states bucking the "Modi magic". Reflecting the coalition's sorry state,Congress leader in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge in Gulbarga and former Prime Minister and JDS supremo H D Deve Gowda in Tumkur were defeated by their BJP rivals, making the rout complete. Independent candidate Sumalatha Ambareesh, supported by ..
Gambhir, Prasad, Chakraborty among first-time LS poll winners
Cricketer-turned-politician Gautam Gambhir, BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad, sufi singer Hans Raj Hans and Bengali actress Mimi Chakraborty were among the candidates who on Thursday won Lok Sabha polls for the first time, while several others were leading in the tally to register their maiden victory in a general election. Poll debutant Gambhir, who was contesting from East Delhi, trounced Congress' Arvinder Singh Lovely by a margin of over 3.91 lakh, according to poll results data shared by the Election Commission. Union minister and Rajya Sabha MP Prasad, who was in the fray from Patna Sahib, defeated his former colleague and Congress candidate Shatrughan Sinha by a margin of over 2.84 lakh, registering his first victory in a general election. In the national capital, where the BJP is all set to make a clean sweep of the seven seats, BJP's North West Delhi candidate Hans Raj Hans pipped AAP's Gugan Singh by a huge margin of over 5.55 lakh with results being declared for this seat ...
Lok Sabha polls: Four independent candidates emerge victorious
Four independent candidates, including cine star Sumalatha Ambareesh, have made it to the Lok Sabha this time compared to three during the previous general elections in 2014. Sumalatha Ambareesh from Mandya in Karnataka trounced Janata Dal (Secular) nominee Nikhil Kumaraswamy, son of incumbent chief minister H D Kumaraswamy. She won the seat with a margin of 1,25,876 votes. Sumalatha is the wife of three-time Congress MP and film star Ambareesh, who died last year. She contested as an independent after being denied ticket by the Congress. The BJP backed her by not fielding a candidate in the constituency. Navnit Ravi Rana defeated Shiv Sena stalwart Anandrao V Adsul in Amravati. A five-time MP, Adsul lost by a margin of 36,951. From Assam, Naba Kumar Sarania won the Kokrajhar seat for the second time in a row, defeating Pramila Rani Brahma of the Bodoland Peoples Front by over 30,000 votes. Besides, Mohanbhai Sanjibhai Delkar won Dadar and Nagar Haveli by defeating sitting MP Natubhai
Tharoor registers hatrick victory
Former Union Minister and Congress sitting MP, Shashi Tharoor won the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat, which witnessed a tight contest between the ruling LDF, Opposition UDF and the BJP, by a margin of nearly one lakh votes. With this, Tharoor scored a hat-trick victory from the prestigious constituency. In a tight rope race, Tharoor managed to defeat his main rival and BJP-NDA candidate Kummanam Rajashekharan by a margin of nearly one lakh votes. Ruling LDF's candidate and CPI MLA, C Divakaran could secure only 2.58 lakh votes. The former UN diplomat managed to secure the same margin he had recorded in his debut contest from the constituency in 2009. However, Tharoor had a narrow escape in 2014 where he could garner only a margin of over 14,000 votes. The battle in the constituency hogged national limelight as political observers had predicted that Sabarimala women entry issue was likely to reflect in the outcome in favour of BJP, which had fielded Kummanam ...
Cong fails to open account in 17 states-UTs, BJP scores zero in four regions
After bitterly fought Lok Sabha elections, which lasted for over a month, BJP is emerging victorious with a thumping majority of more than 300 seats and has cornered Congress to only 51 seats with a complete washout in 17 states and union territories.The fact was also outlined by BJP chief Amit Shah while making a victory speech at the party headquarters earlier today.Attacking Congress he said, "Congress has lost badly in these elections. In country, there are 17 units where Congress has got big zero. These 17 units are Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal, J-K, Manipur, Mizoram, Odisha, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Andaman and Nicobar, Chandigarh, Dadar Nagar Haveli, Daman Diu and Lakshadweep."Interestingly, BJP despite a stellar performance nationally, has also failed to impress the voters of three states and one union territory namely Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. The party, however, has scored exceptionally well in .
Sunny Deol wins from Gurdaspur, says will work hard for people
Actor-turned-politician and BJP candidate from Gurdaspur, Sunny Deol scored a thumping win from his parliamentary constituency on Thursday.Deol defeated his nearest candidate Sunil Jakhar by 82,459 votes.After the announcement of his victory, Deol said, "I am very thankful to all. I will work for the betterment of people. Everyone has supported me a lot and I hope I will keep getting this support."This is the first time that actor Sunny Deol contested elections. He joined the BJP party on April 23, this year. Deol is contesting from Gurdaspur Lok Sabha constituency and early numbers indicated that he has a strong lead over Congress' Sunil Jakhar, sitting MP.In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, BJP had won this seat after fielding actor Vinod Khanna. Khanna passed away in April 2017. Later on, the seat went to Congress' Sunil Kumar Jakhar after by-election. The party has fielded Jakhar again from this seat.Deol is the third member of his family to join politics. Earlier in 2004, his father
Kanimozhi wins first-ever LS election; beats BJP candidate by 3,47,209 votes
DMK leader Kanimozhi won her first ever Lok Sabha election in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi constituency against state BJP chief Tamilisai Soundararajan by a margin of 3,47,209 votes. Kanimozhi got 5,61,666 votes from the constituency.DMK has won 9 seats and leading in 14 out of the 39 seats in Tamil Nadu to emerge as the leading party in the state.At the national level, BJP whose campaign was spearheaded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on muscular nationalism and a strident anti-Congress plank has won 152 seats and is leading on 147 seats in the 543-member Lok Sabha till the last reports came in.
Dark clouds over TN government moves away post bypolls
The ruling AIADMK government in Tamil Nadu led by Chief Minister K. Palaniswami will not face any trouble in remaining in power going by the voting trends seen on Thursday for the by-elections in the 22 Assembly constituencies in the state.
Punjab untouched by Modi wave: Cong wins 8 seats, SAD-BJP 4 & AAP leads on 1
Congress has won eight parliamentary seats in Punjab, bucking the pro-Modi trend seen across northern and central India in this general election. Out of the total 13 seats in the state, Congress romped home to impressive victory on eight seats, surprising both the SAD-BJP combine and the Aam Aadmi Party and improving its tally from three in 2014. It had won Gurdaspur in a bypoll in 2017. The Akali Dal-BJP alliance won on four seats and the AAP was leading on one. SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, Bollywood actor Sunny Deol, Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal, former Union ministers Manish Tewari and Preneet Kaur, and Ravneet Singh Bittu were among the prominent leaders who won in Punjab. Major upsets in the poll outcome were Union minister and BJP nominee Hardeep Singh Puri, Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar and SAD candidate Prem Singh Chandumajra. Akali Dal managed to win only two seats against four it pocketed in last general election. BJP won Hoshiarpur and Gurdaspur but failed ...
Parvesh Verma sets new record for largest victory margin in Delhi; 3 AAP candidates lose deposits
The BJP's West Delhi candidate, Parvesh Singh Verma rode on the Modi wave and his father Sahib Singh Verma's goodwill to win a second term with a record-breaking margin of 5.78 lakh votes. Verma broke his own record of having the largest victory margin in Delhi. In 2014, he had trounced his closest rival, Jarnail Singh of the AAP, by a margin of 2,68,586 votes. This time, he got 8,65,648 of the total 1,44,1601 votes polled in the seat. The Congress's Mahabal Mishra, who stood second, secured 2,87,162 votes. The BJP's Northwest Delhi candidate, Hans Raj Hans, clobbered his closest rival, Gugan Singh of the AAP, with a massive margin of 5,53,075 votes. The Singer-turned-politician got 8,48,663 of the total 1,40,2962 votes, while Singh could garner only 2,94,766. The saffron party's Chandi Chowk candidate, Harsh Vardhan, had the lowest winning margin in the city at just over 2.2 lakh votes. Three candidates of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party, Pankaj Kumar Gupta from Chandni Chowk, Brijesh ...
People have filled this ascetic's bag, it's time to forget shrillness: PM
Flush with a clear victory in the Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday sought to brush aside the bitterness of the poll campaign, saying "who said what during the campaign is past for me", and that "we have to look to the future."
BJP's Manoj Sinha loses Ghazipur seat to Afzal Ansari
Manoj Sinha, a dhoti-clad civil engineer from the prestigious Banaras Hindu University and three-time MP, Thursday seemed to have fallen victim to caste equation as he lost from the Ghazipur constituency in eastern Uttar Pradesh by a margin of 1.19 lakh votes. Sinha, who was Telecom Minister in the Narendra Modi government, lost to Afzal Ansari, the brother of don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari. Ansari was the joint candidate of the 'mahagathbandhan' (BSP-SP-RLD alliance). Sinha got 4.46 lakh votes as compared to BSP's Ansari who received 5.66 lakh votes. Sinha had won this seat in 2014 by a margin of 32,452 votes. Fondly called "Vikas Purush" by his followers, this reserved and introvert member of the Modi government, took charge of the high-profile telecom portfolio from Ravi Shankar Prasad in 2016 at a time when the industry was rolling up its sleeves for a mega spectrum sale. Sinha spent the next almost three years steering the hyper-competitive industry that was hemorrhaging on
BJP's Parvesh Singh Verma retains West Delhi seat by a record margin of over 5.7 lakh votes
BJP's West Delhi candidate Parvesh Singh Verma, who rode on the Modi wave and his father Sahib Singh Verma's goodwill, won a second term with a record margin of over 5.7 lakh votes. In 2014, he had set a new record of victory margin by winning the seat by a margin of over 2.68 lakh votes, defeating Aam Aadmi Party candidate Jarnail Singh, who ended up at the second spot. He had polled more votes than AAP and Congress candidates put together. History repeated itself for Verma as he won by a huge margin of 5,78,486 votes defeating Congress's Mahabal Mishra, who was elected as an MP from the seat in 2009. Verma not only broke his own record but also became the candidate who registered the highest victory margin in Delhi. "This is not just a win, this is a historic landslide win for @narendramodi ji @AmitShah ji, for all us, their comrades & every BJP Karyakarta and above all for the People of India," he posted on Twitter. Before the polls, Verma had exuded confidence that he would ...
Resurgent BJP, Cong stop TRS juggernaut in Telangana
The ruling TRS suffered a setback in the Lok Sabha elections in Telangana, winning lower-than-expected nine seats as a resurgent BJP sprang a surprise emerging victorious in four constituencies Thursday. The Congress also put up a decent show, securing three segments in the state which has 17 constituencies. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's daughter K Kavitha crashed to a shock defeat in Nizambad, from where she sought re-election. The TRS had an electoral understanding with AIMIM and the two parties had repeatedly expressed confidence of winning all the seats. The final outcome coupled with the NDA securing majority on its own in Lok Sabha dashed Rao's hopes of a key role for himself in national politics. Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee President N Uttam Kumar Reddy (Nalgonda) and its working president Revanth Reddy (Malkajgiri) were among those declared elected by the Election Commission as the votes polled in the April 11 elections were counted Thursday. The .
LS Poll 2019: BJP wins 192 seats, leading on 111
BJP has won 192 Lok Sabha seats, while is leading on 111 other seats, as per the latest details of vote counting on the website of Election Commission of India (ECI).The counting of votes polled in the Lok Sabha elections is underway across the country, which voted for 542 seats in seven-phases, beginning April 11 and ending on May 19.The Congress party has been declared victorious on 32 seats and is leading on 20 seats.In all, the result has been declared for 309 seats so far. The counting for remaining 233 seats is still underway.All India Trinamool Congress (AITMC) has won 12 seats, while is leading on 10 seats in West Bengal. Biju Janata Dal is leading on 12 seats in Odisha.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) in Tamil Nadu has won nine seats, while is leading on 14.Janata Dal-United, an ally of BJP in Bihar, has won 10 seats and leading on six seats. Shiv Sena in Maharashtra has won nine seats and leading on nine.In Andhra Pradesh, YSRCP is leading on 22 seats. In Telangana, TRS has ..
Mulayam Singh Yadav wins Mainpuri seat
Samajawadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav has won the Mainpuri seat by defeating his BJP candidate Prem Singh Shakya with a margin of over 94,000 votes. Yadav defeated Shakya by 94,389 votes, the Election Commission's website said. While Yadav polled 5,24926 votes, his rival Shakya received 4,30,537 votes. In 2014, the seat was won by SP's Tej Pratap Yadav.
DMK takes the honours in LS polls, AIADMK retains power in TN
In a much needed morale booster for the DMK, the party swept the Lok Sabha polls in Tamil Nadu, while arch rival AIADMK managed to pull off wins in nine of the 22 Assembly seats that went for bypolls, virtually ensuring its continuance in power till 2021. Another key feature of the outcome is the relegation of Kamal Haasan's fledgling Makkal Needhi Maiam and AIADMK rival T T V Dhinakaran's Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam to the status of spoilers. The DMK-led front, which faced the Lok Sabha polls under a new nomenclature "Secular Progressive Alliance," appears set to win in 36 of the 38 constituencies in Tamil Nadu. In Chidambaram LS seat, the prospects of VCK chief Thol Thirumavalavan (DMK ally) and ruling AIADMK's nominee P Chandrasekar is on a swing as they alternate to lead with slender margins round after round. For the AIADMK, its candidate (son of Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam) P Raveendranathkumar in Theni is set to post victory. The M K Stalin-led party ..
Sadhvi Pragya humbles Digvijay in Bhopal with huge margin
BJP candidate Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur Thursday defeated Congress stalwart Digvijay Singh by a huge margin of 3,64,822 votes in the Bhopal Lok Sabha seat. Thakur, 49, bagged 8,66,482 votes, while Singh received 5,01,660 in the high-profile seat. A total of 14,07,954 votes were polled in the Bhopal Lok Sabha seat, a BJP bastion since decades. NOTA bagged 5,430 votes. As many as 30 candidates were in the fray in the constituency, but the main contest was between Thakur and Singh, 72, a former two-time chief minister. This was the maiden election for Thakur, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case currently out on bail.