In the recent Lok Sabha elections, NOTA has secured the second position with maximum votes of more than two lakh while the BJP candidate has won the Indore constituency. What is the background for this? Check out the news package about
From 1989 to 2014, BJP’s Sumitra Mahajan won 8 consecutive constituencies from Indore Parliamentary Constituency in the state of Madhya Pradesh. The BJP had announced Shankar Lalwani, who contested and won this constituency in 2019, as its candidate this time as well.
On behalf of the Congress party, Akshay Gandhi Bomb had filed his nomination in the Indore constituency. But in an unprecedented move, he withdrew his nomination on the last day of withdrawal. Not only that, he immediately left the Congress and joined the BJP.
This is the first time in the 72-year political history of the Congress party that a candidate has been suspended and unable to contest the elections.
Thus, since their candidate withdrew at the last moment, the Congress party, not knowing what to do, campaigned to vote for NOTA.
It was in this situation that the competition between BJP candidate Shankar Lalwani and NOTA emerged in Indore.
In this situation, the BJP candidate Shankar Lalwani has won 12 lakh 26751 votes in Indore. Next to him is Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Sanjay Solanki with 50,524.
In Indore constituency, NOTA secured the second highest number of votes by securing an unprecedented 2 lakh 18 thousand 674 votes. This is the first time that Nota has finished second in an Indian election.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Nota got 46,559 votes in the Nilgiris constituency of Tamil Nadu. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, maximum 51 thousand 660 votes were registered in Gopalganj Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar. It is worth mentioning that this is about 5 percent of the total votes cast in the constituency.
The number of votes that NOTA gets in every election keeps increasing. In the last 2014 election, NOTA got 60,02,842 votes, while in 2019 election, NOTA got 65,22,772 votes.
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