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Cong establishes unassailable lead in Alwar & Ajmer LS seats

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Press Trust of India Jaipur
Last Updated : Feb 01 2018 | 5:50 PM IST
Congress candidates have established unassailable lead in Alwar and Ajmer Lok Sabha seats of Rajasthan, with the party set to deal a huge blow to the state's ruling BJP which had won them in 2014.
Karan Singh Yadav and Raghu Sharma were leading their nearest rivals Jaswant Yadav and Ram Swaroop Lamba by over 1.94 lakh and 80,455 lakh votes in the by-poll for Alwar and Ajmer seats respectively, Chief Electoral Officer Govind Sharma said.
The main opposition party's candidate Vivek Dhakad has already won the Mandalgarh Assembly seat, defeating his BJP rival Shakti Singh Hada. The Congress wrested Mandalgarh from the BJP.
The BJP had won all the 25 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state in the 2014 general elections.
The party, which wrested power from the Congress in in Rajasthan in 2013, had 161 MLAs in the House of 200.
Assembly polls in Rajasthan are due later this year.

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First Published: Feb 01 2018 | 5:50 PM IST

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