JAITLEY A PROMINENT LOOSER

Narendra Modi, Sonia Gandhi and Sushma Swaraj were among the bigwigs who won while Union Ministers Sachin Pilot, Pallam Raju and Ajit Singh along with Arun Jaitley and Speaker Meira Kumar were some of the prominent losers in Lok Sabha election results declared today. BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate won by a huge margin of over 5,70,000 votes in Vadodara defeating Congress General Secretary Madhusudan Mistry whereas Sonia Gandhi retained her Rae Bareli seat by defeating BJP's Ajay Agrawal by over 3.5 lakh votes. Senior BJP leader and Leader of Opposition in the 15th Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj won the Vidisha seat by a big margin of more than 4.10 lakh votes. She defeated Congress' Lakshman Singh in the contest. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath was successful in retaining his Chhindwara seat where he defeated his BJP rival in Madhya Pradesh by a margin of 1.16 lakh votes. While other Cabinet Ministers who won their seats include Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily from Chikkballapur and Jyotiraditya Scindia won from Guna by a margin of 1.20 lakh votes. The father-son duo of Ramvilas Paswan and Chirag Paswan won their seats in Hajipur and Jamui constituencies respectively in Bihar. The prominent losers include Corporate Affairs Minister Sachin Pilot from Ajmer who lost by a margin of over 1.70 lakh votes and HRD Minister MM Pallam Raju who was way behind his TDP and YSR rivals and could manage only 6,100 votes. Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar lost to her BJP rival from Sasaram in Bihar by over 60,000 votes. BJP's rebel and former senior leader Jaswant Singh also lost from Barmer where he was defeated by Col Sonaram Chaudhary by over 80,000 votes. Former Punjab Chief Minister and Congress candidate Amarinder Singh defeated senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley in Amritsar by a margin of 1,02,770 vot Union Culture Minister Chandresh Katoch lost to her BJP rival Gajendra Singh Shekhawat by over four lakh votes from Jodhpur.