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Narendra Modi wins in Varanasi for 3rd time

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PRIME Minister Narendra Modi won the Varanasi seat for the third consecutive term by defeating Congress candidate Ajay Rai. The victory margin of Modi this time is 1,52,513, which is less than his victory margins of 2019 and 2014. In 2019, Modi’s victory margin was 4,79,505. He defeated SP’s Shalini Yadav that time while Congress’ Ajay Rai was the runner up. In 2014, Modi had won by a margin of 3,71,784 votes when he defeated AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal.

Rahul Gandhi wins from Rae Bareli and Wayanad

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CONGRESS leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday won the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh by a margin of 3,90,030 votes, bettering his mother Sonia Gandhi’s victory margin in 2019. According to Election Commission, Rahul Gandhi secured a total of 6,87,649 votes against the BJP’s Dinesh Pratap Singh who got 2,97,619 votes. Thakur Prasad Yadav of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) secured 21,624 votes. Five years ago, former Congress President Sonia Gandhi won the seat by a margin of 1,67,178 votes against Dinesh Pratap Singh. Sonia Gandhi, who was elected to the Lok Sabha from Rae Bareli continuously since 2004, vacated the seat earlier this year and got elected to the Rajya Sabha. Rae Bareli was the only Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh that the Congress won in 2019. Rahul Gandhi represented the Amethi seat in the Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2019.

In the 2019 general election, he lost the seat to the BJP’s Smriti Irani but was elected to the Lok Sabha from Kerala’s Wayanad. Meanwhile, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday also won the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in Kerala with a margin of over 3.5 lakh votes against CPI’s Annie Raja, according to figures released by the Election Commission. Gandhi got 6,47,445 votes which was lower than the 7,06,367 votes he got in 2019 from the same constituency. This time he won by a margin of 3,64,422 votes against his nearest rival, CPI’s Annie Raja who got 2,83,023 votes. In 2019, CPI’s P P Suneer who contested against Gandhi had got only 2,74,597 votes and lost by a margin of 4,31,770 votes. In the last Lok Sabha polls, BJP’s ally Bharath Dharma Jana Sena had contested from Wayanad and its candidate Thushar Vellappally had merely got 78,816 votes. This time, BJP state President K Surendran had faced off against Gandhi and managed to get 1,41,045 votes.