Dehradun, Jun 4 (PTI) BJP's Mala Rajya Lakshmi Shah won the Tehri Garhwal seat in Uttarakhand on Tuesday defeating Jot Singh Gunsola of the Congress by 2,72,493 votes.

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This is the fourth consecutive time that the erstwhile Tehri royal has won from the seat.

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Shah is a three-time MP from Tehri Garhwal seat. She won the seat for the first time in 2009.

She had defeated Congress' Pritam Singh in 2019 from the seat by 3,00,586 votes.

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