India News | Rajasthan Polls: BJP Candidate Satish Poonia Loses Amber Assembly Seat
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Deputy Leader of Opposition in the Rajasthan assembly and BJP candidate Satish Poonia lost the Amber seat to the Congress' Prashant Sharma by a margin of 9,092 votes on Sunday, according to the Election Commission.
Jaipur, Dec 3 (PTI) Deputy Leader of Opposition in the Rajasthan assembly and BJP candidate Satish Poonia lost the Amber seat to the Congress' Prashant Sharma by a margin of 9,092 votes on Sunday, according to the Election Commission.
Sharma secured 1,08,914 votes, while Poonia got 99,822 votes, as per the EC's website.
Poonia is also a former state president of the BJP.
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