Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj today retained her Vidisha Lok Sabha seat in Madhya Pradesh by a margin of 4,10,698 votes.
The BJP veteran defeated brother of Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh and former MP Lakshman Singh from Vidisha by improving her 2009 margin of 3,89,844 votes.
In 2009, Sushma won the seat hands down in the absence of no challenge from Congress as the candidature of its nominee Rajkumar Patel was cancelled on technical grounds.
During campaigning, Sushma kept on appealing voters to ensure her victory by a margin of over four lakh votes and today's results have fulfilled her grand wish.
Sushma got 7,14,348 votes while Lakshman Singh polled 3,03,650 votes.
In another setback to Congress, Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi's close confidante and sitting MP, Meenakshi Natarajan lost polls from Mandsaur seat.
BJP's Sudhir Gupta defeated Natarajan by a margin of 3,03,649 votes.
Gupta secured 6,98,335 votes while Nataraja managed to get 3,94,686 votes.
Similarly, Dr Bhagirath Prasad, who joined BJP a day after getting Congress nomination from Bhind seat defeated Imarti Devi (Congress) by a margin of 1,59,961 votes.
Prasad got 4,04,474 votes while Imarti secured 2,44,513.
From Khargone Lok Sabha seat, BJP's Subash Patel defeated Ramesh Patel (Congress) by a margin of 2,57,879 votes.
Subhash secured 6,49,354 votes while Ramesh managed to get 3,91,475 votes.
