Not just clean sweep\, BJP candidates in Haryana also notched up big margin wins

Not just clean sweep, BJP candidates in Haryana also notched up big margin wins

Press Trust of India  |  Chandigarh 

The BJP candidates not only won all 10 seats in Haryana, its nominees left rivals behind by huge margins - over six lakh in two constituencies and more than three lakh in six.

Leading the club of BJP candidates in is its and Karnal nominee Sanjay Bhatia, who surprised many with a record margin of 6,56,412 votes over his nearest rival of the

Bhatia, popularly called 'Bunty Bhai', is a confidant of

The BJP had replaced sitting from Karnal with Bhatia.

Bhatia was followed by and sitting Faridabad in terms of the victory margin.

He defeated his rival by a margin of 6,38,239 votes.

In the Bhiwani-Mahendergarh constituency too, BJP's sitting MP inflicted a crushing defeat on Congress' Shruti Choudhary, who is the graddaughter of former

The former MP lost to by a huge margin of 4,44,463 votes. Shruti was elected to the Lok Sabha from the seat in 2009 but was defeated by in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

too retained his Gurugram seat. He defeated Congress' by 3,86,256 votes.

minister Nayab Singh Saini, who was fielded from Kurukshetra after sitting MP RK Saini rebelled, defeated Congress' Nirmal Singh by a margin of 3,84,591 votes.

Sitting defeated former and Congress' Kumari Selja by a margin of 3,42,345 votes. Selja is a two-time MP from the constituency. She had bagged the seat in the 2004 and 2009 elections.

Bureaucrat-turned-politician won from Hisar, defeating sitting MP and (JJP) candidate by a margin of 3,14,068 votes.

Dushyant, who is the grandson of former minister Om Prakash Chautala, had floated his own political outfit after splitting from the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD).

Congress candidate Bhavya Bishnoi, the gradson of former Bhajan Lal, finished third.

is the son of Union Minister He had joined the BJP recently.

The state Congress chief, Ashok Tanwar, too faced a crushing defeat at the hands of BJP's He lost the contest by a margin of 3,09,918 votes.

In Sonipat too, where the Congress had fielded former Bhupinder Singh Hooda, the saffron outfit registered an impressive victory.

Sitting MP defeated the former chief minister by a margin of 1,64,864 votes.

The BJP won all 10 seats in the state, improving its last tally of seven seats.

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First Published: Fri, May 24 2019. 16:31 IST