Gurgaon Lok Sabha Election 2019: BJP's Rao Inderjit Singh takes a substantial lead

Written By DNA Web Team | Updated: May 23, 2019, 03:35 PM IST

Inderjit Singh

Gurgaon is one of the Lok Sabha Constituencies that went to vote in Lok Sabha Election 2019.

Gurgaon Lok Sabha Election Result updates:

As of 3:25 pm, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Rao Inderjit Singh leads ahead of Congress candidate Capt. Ajay Singh with a substantial margin of over 3.3 lakh votes.

Gurgaon is one of the Lok Sabha Constituencies that went to vote in Lok Sabha Election 2019.

 

Constituency Profile

 

The main battle will be between Captain Ajay Singh of INC, sitting MP Rao Inderjit Singh of BJP and Virendar Rana of INLD.

 

In 2014, Rao Inderjit Singh of BJP beat Zakir Hussain of INLD by 2.74 lakh votes.

In 2009, Rao Inderjit Singh of BJP beat BSP’s Zakir Hussain by 84,000 votes.

 

 

Battle for Haryana

The following seats are going to polls on May 12 - Ambala, Kurukshetra, Sirsa, Hissar, Karnal, Sonipat, Rohtak, Bhiwani–Mahendragarh, Gurgaon and Faridabad.

Among the prominent BJP candidates in the fray are Union ministers Rao Inderjit Singh, who is seeking re-election from Gurgaon, and Krishan Pal Gurjar, who is fighting to represent Faridabad again.

Union minister Birender Singh's son Brijendra Singh (BJP) and former chief minister Bhajan Lal's grandson Bhavya Bishnoi (Congress), both political greenhorns, are contesting from the Hisar Lok Sabha seat.

They face Dushyant Chautala, the sitting MP and leader of the newly floated JJP.

The opposition Congress has fielded its stalwarts on several seats.

Bhupinder Hooda, who is a sitting MLA from Garhi Sampla-Kiloi in Rohtak district, has entered the fray from Sonipat. Former Union minister Kumari Selja and state Congress chief Ashok Tanwar are fighting from Ambala and Sirsa, respectively, for the party.

Over 1.80 crore people are eligible to vote in the state. Of them, 97,16,516 are male, 83,40,173 female and 207 transgender.

 A total of 223 candidates are left in the fray for 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana which will go to the polls in the sixth phase on May 12, an official said Friday.On the last day of withdrawal of nominations, 10 candidates from six parliamentary constituencies have withdrawn their nominations, Joint Chief Electoral Officer Inder Jeet said in an official release. 

While one candidate each has withdrawn nomination from Kurukshetra, Sirsa, Hisar, Bhiwani-Mahendergarh and Gurugram parliamentary constituencies, five candidates have withdrawn their nomination from Karnal seat, he said.

Eighteen candidates are contesting from Ambala, 24 from Kurukshetra, 29 from Sonipat, 21 from Bhiwani-Mahendegarh, 24 from Gurugram, 20 from Sirsa, 26 from Hisar, 16 from Karnal, 18 from Rohtak and 27 from Faridabad, the officer said.

 

 

 

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