Election Results 2019: 5 BJP giant killers who routed their political opponents in Lok Sabha Polls

Amidst the massive wave in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA government, there were some notable candidates who emerged as giant killers in the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections.

Let’s take a look at top giant killers who snatched seats from long sitting MPs and other political veterans. (Images: PTI)

Smriti Irani defeated Congress President Rahul Gandhi in Amethi

Sadhvi Pragya trounced Congress stalwart Digvijay Singh in Bhopal

Tejasvi Surya won election against Congress leader BK Hariprasad in Bangalore South

Election Results 2019: Amidst the massive wave in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA government, there were some notable candidates who emerged as giant killers in the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections. On one hand, where several political families including Nehru-Gandhi scion, former Prime Minister and Chief Ministers failed miserably to lure voters, some candidates registered victory by a record margin of votes. The gigantic Modi wave helped a number of new entrants to pave the way to the 17 Lok Sabha of the country ousting some long time sitting MPs such as Jyotiraditya Scindia, KJ Alphons, Hardeep Puri, Shatrughan Sinha, Digvijay Singh and Congress President Rahul Gandhi himself. Turning a giant killer for BJP in Congress bastion, BJP candidate and Union Minister Smriti Irani defeated Congress President Rahul Gandhi by a margin of 55,120 votes in Amethi. Among other big winners in the saffron camp included Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Ravi Shankar Prasad. Even BJP President Amit Shah bagged the Gandhinagar seat by the highest margin ever. As India is all set to see PM Modi assuming PMO for the second consecutive time, let’s take a look at top giant killers who snatched seats from long sitting MPs and other political veterans in Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Smriti Irani Former HRD and information & broadcasting minister and current textile minister in PM Modi’s cabinet, Smriti Irani on Thursday emerged as a leading giant killed in BJP camp — this time scripting a historic win by dethroning Rahul Gandhi in the Congress's home turf Amethi. Irani had put up a strong fight in 2014 but lost to Gandhi. The BJP fielded her again in this general election in which she trounced him by over 55,000 votes in his family pocket borough. Sadhvi Pragya In what came as a shocker for many, another BJP candidate making her debut in active politics, Sadhvi Pragya trounced Congress stalwart Digvijay Singh by a huge margin of 3,64,822 votes in the Bhopal Lok Sabha seat. This was the maiden election for Thakur, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case currently out on bail. Thakur had kicked up rows with some of her controversial remarks after BJP announced her candidature. She had lauded Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse as a ‘patriot’, sparking furious debate in the last lap of the seven-phase elections. KP Yadav Jyotiraditya Scindia, a four-time parliamentarian from Guna in Madhya Pradesh, lost his time-tested constituency to BJP's Dr KP Yadav. The Congress has been in power in the seat since 1999. Scindia lost to Yadav by a margin of over 1 lakh 25 thousand votes. BJP’s candidate KP Yadav is an MBBS doctor by profession and his father has been a District Secretary of Congress. Yadav was one of the closest aid of Scindia once and have pivotal role in his electoral victories. Scindia won from the Guna constituency in the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections despite most of his party colleagues facing a defeat due to a widespread Modi wave. He belongs to the former princely state of Gwalior and is a close friend of Congress president Rahul Gandhi. G S Basavaraj In a big blow to the ruling coalition in Karnataka, JD(S) patriarch and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda was defeated in Tumkur constituency by his BJP rival by a margin of over 13,000 votes, the Election Commission said Thursday. G SBasavaraj secured 5,96,127 votes while Gowda got 5,82,788votes, according to the EC details. Gowda, the joint candidate of ruling Congress-JDS coalition, chose to contest from Tumkur at the last minute, after vacating Hassan-his home tuft, to grandson Prajwal Revanna. Tejasvi Surya First-time BJP candidate Tejasvi Surya won the Lok Sabha elections against Congress leader BK Hariprasad in Bangalore South on Thursday, making him the party’s youngest MP in the Lok Sabha. With this win, the saffron party’s 28-year-old boy has helped the BJP retain the constituency that it has won since 1991. As per reports, Surya beat Congress veteran BK Hariprasad by a margin of 3,31,192 votes.

Published at : 24 May 2019 10:52 PM (IST)

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