IN PHOTOS: Heavyweights who bit the dust in Assembly election results today

The Assembly poll results on Thursday brought gloom for several political heavyweights, including two current and five former chief ministers, who lost the electoral battle from their respective seats. Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and his Uttarakhand counterpart Pushkar Singh Dhami lost the polls from the seats they held respectively. A similar fate awaited former Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Singh Rawat and former Punjab chief ministers Parkash Singh Badal and Amarinder Singh. Pics/ PTI, AFP

Updated On: 2022-03-10 09:48 PM IST

Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami, Charanjit Singh Channi and Keshav Prasad Maurya. Pics/ AFP

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami lost from the Khatima Assembly seat on Thursday. The BJP leader was defeated by Congress' Bhuwan Chandra Kapri by 6,579 votes. Pic/ AFP

Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi was defeated by AAP's first-timer and an eye surgeon from Bhadaur and Chamkaur Sahib seats, respectively. Bhadaur AAP candidate Labh Singh Ugoke defeated Channi by a comprehensive margin of 37,558 votes. Dr Charanjit Singh, an eye surgeon, trounced Channi by a margin of 7,942 votes from Chamkaur Sahib. Channi represented Chamkaur Sahib thrice. Pic/ AFP

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Jeevan Jyot Kaur defeated Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on the Amritsar East Assembly seat in Punjab. Kaur won the Assembly constituency Amritsar East constituency by bagging total votes of 39,679. Trailing behind the AAP candidate was Congress's Sidhu with 32,929 votes. Pic/ AFP

Congress's Harish Rawat was defeated by BJP's Mohan Bisht by over 14,000 votes in Uttarakhand's Lalkuan constituency. Pic/PTI

Uttar Pradesh Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya was defeated by SP's Pallavi Patel in UP's Sirathu. Maurya lost the seat by 6,953 votes. Pic/ AFP

Two-time Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh lost from his home turf Patiala Urban seat by a margin of 19,873 votes. Singh was defeated by Aam Aadmi Party candidate Ajit Pal Singh Kohli. Pic/ AFP

Swami Prasad Maurya, who had jumped ship to SP from BJP before the elections, lost from UP's Fazilnagar. He was defeated by BJP's Surendra Kumar Khushwaha by 45,580 votes. Pic/ AFP

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Gurmeet Singh Khudian defeated Shiromani Akali Dal chief Parkash Singh Badal from the Lambi Assembly seat in Punjab on Thursday. AAP's Khudian won with a formidable margin of 11,396 votes. Pic/ AFP

Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal lost to AAP's Jagdeep Kamboj from Jalalabad seat in Punjab's Fazilka district. Sukhbir, the son of former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, lost by a margin of 30,930 votes. Pic/ AFP

Amit Palekar, the Aam Aadmi Party's chief ministerial candidate in Goa, has lost the elections to Rodolfo Louis Fernandes of the Congress. He finished third with 4,049 votes in the St Cruz Assembly constituency in North Goa District. Pic/ PTI

Congress candidate and Punjab's one of the most popular singers Sidhu Moosewala lost to Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Dr Vijay Singla with a massive margin of 63,323 seats in the Mansa assembly seat. Pic/ PTI

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