Bhopal, May 23 (PTI) BJP candidate Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur Thursday defeated Congress stalwart Digvijay Singh by a huge margin of 3,64,822 votes in the Bhopal Lok Sabha seat.

Thakur, 49, bagged 8,66,482 votes, while Singh received 5,01,660 in the high-profile seat.

A total of 14,07,954 votes were polled in the Bhopal Lok Sabha seat, a BJP bastion since decades.

NOTA bagged 5,430 votes.

As many as 30 candidates were in the fray in the constituency, but the main contest was between Thakur and Singh, 72, a former two-time chief minister.

This was the maiden election for Thakur, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case currently out on bail. PTI

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