Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah has secured a landslide victory in the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat after he gained an unassailable lead of over 7 lakh votes against his nearest Congress rival Sonal Ramanbhai Patel. As per the latest Election Commission data, Shah got 1,10,972 votes in total, while Patel received 2,66,256 votes.
This is the Union Home Minister’s second term as an MP from the Gandhinagar seat, which was once represented by BJP stalwart Lal Krishna Advani. Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee also won the seat in 1996, although he preferred to retain the Lucknow seat (in Uttar Pradesh).
The BJP is currently leading in 23 out of the 25 other Lok Sabha seats in stronghold Gujarat and Congress in one. BJP’s Surat candidate Mukesh Dalal has already been declared the winner uncontested from the seat. Another BJP leader and Union minister, Mansukh Mandaviya, is also poised for a comfortable win from the Porbandar Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat as he is leading by over 3.8 lakh votes.
With the counting process nearing its end, Mandaviya has so far secured 6,25,962 votes, while his nearest Congress rival Lalit Vasoya got 2,45,677 votes.
