India News | Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Wins Lucknow LS Seat

Lucknow, Jun 4 (PTI) BJP candidate and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh won the Lucknow Lok Sabha seat with a margin of 1,35,159 votes on Tuesday.

Rajnath Singh polled 6,12,709 votes against Samajwadi Party candidate Ravidas Mehrotra who got 4,77,550 seats.

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This is the third consecutive victory of Singh from Lucknow. In 2019, Rajnath Singh defeated Poonam Sinha with a margin of over 3.4 Lakh votes. He also secured a comfortable victory against the congress candidate. Lucknow is a prestigious parliamentary seat represented by late former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1991-2004) for five consecutive times.

Singh had earlier won the election from Ghaziabad in 2009. Before Singh, who is a former Chief Minister of UP and former National President of BJP, Lucknow was represented by the former Governor of Madhya Pradesh Lalji Tandon.

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