Lok Sabha 2024 turncoats: Jyotiraditya Scindia wins, Sita Soren loses; check details
Lok Sabha polls while Ashok Tanwar, Sita Soren and Preneet Kaur joined the list of those who had defected to the saffron party but could not succeed.Aviation Minister Scindia won from Guna constituency in Madhya Pradesh by a margin of over five lakh votes.In 2019, Scindia had contested the polls from Guna on a Congress ticket but lost to BJP's Krishna Pal Singh. The constituency has been a stronghold of the Scindia family, represented by his grandmother Vijaya Raje Scindia, popularly known as the Rajmata of Gwalior, for four consecutive terms from 1989 to 1998 as a BJP member.ALSO READ: Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 Live UpdatesIn 2020, he revolted against the Congress and joined the BJP along with his 22 loyalist MLAs in Madhya Pradesh, which resulted in the BJP assuming control of the state government.Industrialist and two-time MP Naveen Jindal had joined the BJP in March this year, ending his two decade long association with the Congress.
He won from Kurukshetra in Haryana by a margin of over 29,000 votes.Jitin Prasada, Uttar Pradesh PWD minister and son of veteran Congress leader late Jitendra Prasada, had quit the Congress three years ago and joined the BJP. He was fielded from Pilibhit Lok Sabha constituency in place of sitting MP Varun Gandhi and won by a margin of over 1.64 lakh votes.Former Haryana Congress president Ashok Tanwar, who had joined the BJP earlier this year, lost the election to Congress' Kumari Selja from Sirsa by a margin of over 2.68 lakh votes.ALSO READ: Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 Reactions LIVE UpdatesTanwar had quit the Congress in 2019 and joined the AAP in 2022.
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