Amit Shah Wins Gandhinagar Seat By Over Four Lakh Votes

Amit Shah wins Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat by four lakh plus votes.

Shah was facing Congress rival Sonal Patel in the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat. Counting was underway for 25 Lok Sabha seats in the state since 8 am.

In the 2019 election, Shah won the seat by a huge margin of more than 5.57 lakh votes. The Union minister is seeking a second term from the seat, which has in the past been represented by BJP stalwart Lal Krishna Advani.

Former prime minister Ata Bihari Vajpayee also won the seat in 1996, though he preferred to retain the Lucknow seat (in Uttar Pradesh).

The BJP is ahead of 25 seats in Gujarat and had already won Surat seat unopposed. The party, which is in power in Gujarat for over two decades, won all 26 seats in 2014 and 2019.

Meanwhile, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Rajeev Chandrasekhar is leading from the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat in Kerala while veteran Congress leader Shashi Tharoor is trailing from his bastion, as per leads.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar is leading the seat with a margin of 13,336 votes, leaving behind the veteran Congress leader Shashi Tharoor.

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