 "Lok Sabha polls: Ex-CMs Channi, Akhilesh win; Baghel, Digvijay face defeat")
Lok Sabha Elections: Four former Bharatiya Janata Party chief ministers and three from Congress and ex Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav are among the political heavyweights who contested the ongoing Lok Sabha polls as the parties seek to boost their 2019 performance.
Counting for 542 Lok Sabha constituencies is underway to elect the 18th Lok Sabha in which big guns such as former Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi, ex-Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar, former Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai, former Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel, ex-Karnataka CM Jagadeesh Shettar, are in fray.
Here's what early counting trends show for these high-profile politicians:
1) Charanjit Singh Channi has won the key Lok Sabha constituency of Jalandhar. He secured his win by getting 390,053 votes and a margin of 175,993 votes against BJP's Sushil Kumar Rinku.
Manohar Lal Khattar leading in Karnal
2) Khattar won the Karnal seat in Haryana over 200,000 votes.
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3) Bommai has won Karnataka's Haveri constituency by over 43,513 votes.
4) Baghel has lost the Rajnandgaon seat in Chhattisgarh by a margin of 44,411 votes to his BJP rival Santosh Pandey.
5) Shettar has won the Belgaum constituency in Karnataka by 178,437 votes. Congress' political debutant, Mrinal Ravindra Hebbalkar, was the main rival contestant against Shettar.
6) Akhilesh Yadav won the Samajwadi Party stronghold Kannauj by a margin of over 170,992 votes, the EC data showed.
Exit polls had predicted an edge for Akhilesh in Kannauj, the former stronghold of the Samajwadi Party (since 1998), which Dimple lost to sitting Bharatiya Janata Party MP Subrat Pathak in 2019. She had won the seat in 2014.
Exit polls had predicted an edge for Akhilesh in Kannauj, the former stronghold of the Samajwadi Party (since 1998), which Dimple lost to sitting Bharatiya Janata Party MP Subrat Pathak in 2019. She had won the seat in 2014.
7) Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the former Madhya Pradesh CM, has won the Vidisha constituency by a margin of whopping 821,408 votes. His rival candidate Congress' Pratap Bhanu Sharma secured nearly 295,000 votes.
8) Digvijay Singh, the former MP CM, lost the Lok Sabha polls from Rajgarh in the state. He lost to BJP rival Rodmal Nagar by a margin of 146,089 votes.