Shankar Lalwani, the incumbent BJP MP from Indore, won on Tuesday by an unprecedented margin of 11,75,092 votes in a battle where 2.18 lakh voters chose the none of the above option, setting a record for NOTA. According to a BJP leader, his victory margin is most likely the largest in the nations electoral history. Union minister Virendra Kumar defeated Pankaj Ahirwar of the Congress by a margin of 4,03,312 votes to win the Tikamgarh (SC) seat.On April 29, the deadline for nomination withdrawals, Congress candidate Akshay Kanti Bam withdrew his candidacy, dealing a blow to the partys chances of winning the Indore Lok Sabha seat. Later, Bam joined the BJP, which prompted the Congress to urge voters to use the NOTA option on electronic voting machines on May 13 during elections in Indore. Previous victory recordIn the 2019 elections, Lalwani achieved victory for the first time. Since 2009, Virendra Kumar has won four consecutive elections to hold the Tikamgarh Lok Sabha seat without losing. He formerly served four terms as the representative for Sagar in the Lok Sabha, but he moved to Tikamgarh following delimitation in 2008. Bhopal, June 4 (PTI): Shankar Lalwani, the incumbent BJP MP from Indore, won on Tuesday by an unprecedented margin of 11,75,092 votes in a Lok Sabha election in which 2.18 lakh voters chose the none of the above option, setting a record for NOTA.BJP flags hail high According to a BJP leader, his victory margin is most likely the largest in the nations electoral history. Union minister Virendra Kumar defeated Pankaj Ahirwar of the Congress by a margin of 4,03,312 votes to win the Tikamgarh (SC) seat. On April 29, the deadline for nomination withdrawals, Congress candidate Akshay Kanti Bam withdrew his candidacy, dealing a blow to the partys chances of winning the Indore Lok Sabha seat.
