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BJP, INLD wiped out in Haryana Chandigarh, May 13 In Karnal, Minister of State for Home I. D. Swami (BJP) has lost to Congress candidate Arvind Sharma. In Rohtak, Leader of Opposition in Haryana Assembly Bhupinder Singh Hooda (Cong) downed his nearest rival Capt Abhimanyu (BJP) by 1,53,757 votes. Cong has wrested the seat from the INLD. Ajay Singh Chautala and Abhey Singh Chautala, the two sons of the In Kurukshetra, Naveen Jindal floored Abhey Singh Chautala (INLD) by 1.22 lakh votes. In Ambala (SC), former Union Minister Kumari Selja (Cong) gave a crushing defeat to state BJP president Rattan Lal Kataria. In Sonepat, Dharam Pal Malik (Cong) was leading over BJP nominee K. S. Sangwan by 12,000. Controversial INLD candidate Krishna Malik, wife of Haryana DGP M. S. Malik on leave, was placed third. In Sirsa (SC), Atma Singh Gill (Cong) is leading by 15,000 votes over Sushil Kumar Indora (INLD), while in Faridabad, Avtar Singh Bhadana (Cong) is ahead of Mohd Ilyas (INLD) by 85,000. These results are expected anytime soon. In Hisar, Jai Prakash Barwala (Cong) defeated Surender Singh Barwala (INLD), while in Mahendragarh, Rao Inderjeet Singh (Cong) was ahead of Dr Sudha Yadav (BJP) by over 44,000 votes.
Pratibha leads Cong victory march in HP Shimla, May 13 Col Dhani Ram Shandil of the Congress has been declared elected from Shimla (SC) defeating his nearest rival, Hira Nand Kashyap of the BJP, by more than 1,08,000 votes. Punnulal Mohile of the BJP has been the winning candidate from Bilaspur-SC after defeating rival Besant Pahare of the Congress by 81,000 votes. The BJP has done well to retain this seat.
In
Hamirpur, Suresh Kumar Chandel of the BJP has won by 2202 votes. However, things are
different for former Chief Minister Shanta Kumar of the BJP in home
ground Kangra, where he lost to Chander Kumar, Minister for Forest, by
13,000 votes. — PTI, UNI
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