This time around 280 such candidates have won, who will become members of the lower house of Parliament i.e. Lok Sabha for the first time. These include former Maharashtra CM Narayan Rane, former Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat, former Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar, former Tripura CM Biplab Kumar Deb, Jitan Ram Manjhi from Bihar, Basavaraj Bommai from Karnataka, Jagdish Shettar, former Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi and former Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
Film stars and candidates from royal families also won
BJP candidate Kangana Ranaut has won from Mandi seat of Himachal Pradesh. Arun Govil, who played the role of Lord Ram in the Ramayana serial, has won the election from Meerut. BJP has won only one seat in Kerala and among those who opened the account of BJP seats in Kerala and got elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time, Suresh Gopi from Thrissur seat of Kerala is also associated with acting. Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) had fielded school teacher Bhaskar Bhagre from Dindori seat of Maharashtra and Bhagre has defeated Union Minister Bharti Pawar. Members of former royal families who have become members of the Lok Sabha for the first time include Chhatrapati Shahu (Kolhapur), Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar (Mysore) and Kriti Devi Debbarman (Tripura East).
Controversial former judge also won
Former Justice of Kolkata High Court Abhijit Gangopadhyay has won by 77,733 votes. There was a lot of controversy about him and he also had a lot of controversy with the TMC government of Bengal. After resigning from his post, he joined BJP and BJP fielded him from Tamluk Lok Sabha seat of West Bengal. This was one of the most important seats and Gangopadhyay defeated TMC candidate Debanshu Bhattacharya. This seat became very famous when former Justice of Kolkata High Court Abhijit Gangopadhyay was made a candidate from here. While being a judge, he had also made many harsh comments on the Mamata Banerjee government during his tenure.
About one and a half dozen ministers of BJP lost
In this election, about one and a half dozen ministers of BJP have lost the election. These include big names like Smriti Irani from Amethi seat, Union Minister Rajiv Chandrashekhar from Thiruvananthapuram seat, Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra Teni from Kheri seat of UP, Minister of State for Education Subhash Sarkar from Bankura seat of West Bengal, Union Minister Arjun Munda from Khunti seat of Jharkhand, Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Kailash Choudhary from Barmer seat, Union Minister Sanjeev Balyan from Muzaffarnagar seat, Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Kaushal Kishore from Mohanlalganj seat, Union Minister Mahendra Nath Pandey from Chandauli seat, Minister of State for Health Bharti Pawar from Dindori seat, Union Minister RK Singh from Ara of Bihar.
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