Union minister and BJP candidate Jyotiraditya Scindia has won the Guna Lok Sabha constituency by defeating INC's Rao Yadvendra Singh Yadav. Scindia's victory margin was 5,40,929 as he secured 9,23,302 votes compared to Yadav's 3,82,373 votes in Guna.
From the first trends in the morning, Scindia maintained his lead and secured a big victory for his party. The BJP is set to make a clean sweep in Madhya Pradesh as it is on course to win all the 29 seats in the state.
The Guna constituency has been a stronghold for the Scindia family.
In the 2019 elections, Scindia contested from the Congress party but lost against BJP’s Krishna Pal Singh Yadav by more than 1 lakh votes. Scindia joined the BJP in 2020 and is currently the minister of civil aviation.
In 2014, Scindia — then with the Congress — won and Guna was one of the two seats that the Congress won.
The seat holds a lot of significance for Scindia who has contested from Guna for the Congress party in 2014 and 2019 and now for the Bharatiya Janata Party. Scindia won the Guna seat in 2004, 2009 and 2014 elections but faced defeat in 2019 as the Congress candidate. He quit the Congress in 2020 and moved to the BJP. In 2021, he became the cabinet minister in the Modi government.
Guna is one of the biggest constituencies in Madhya Pradesh and went to polls on May 7 in the third phase of 2024 elections. The constituency saw a voter turnout of 68.93 per cent, which was less than the last elections in 2019.
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