Smriti Irani, Arjun Munda, Rajeev Chandrashekhar among 13 losing Union ministers

BJP Heavyweights Smriti Irani Arjun Munda Ajay Mishra Teni and Kailash Chaudhary were among the 13 Union ministers who tasted defeat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections as stunning losses in three Hindi heartland states forced the BJP to rely on allies to form the governmentIrani who had clinched the Amethi Lok Sabha seat after defeating Rahul Gandhi in 2019 lost to Congress candidate and a close aide of the Gandhi family Kishori Lal Sharma by 167196 lakh votesIn Keralarsquos Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar lost to Shashi Tharoor of the Congress by over 16077 votesUnion Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra Teni whose son was arrested in connection with the violence in Lakhimpur Kheri of October 2021 lost to the Samajwadi Partyrsquos Utkarsh Verma by over 34329 votesThe SP contested the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh in alliance with the CongressMinister of state for education Subhas Sarkar was defeated by Trinamool Congress candidate Arup Chakraborty in Bankura Lok Sabha seat of West Bengal by a margin of 32778 votesIn Jharkhandrsquos Khunti Lok Sabha constituency Union Tribal Affairs Minister and sitting MP Arjun Munda lost to Congress candidate Kalicharan Munda by 149675 lakh votes according to the Election CommissionMinister of State for Agriculture and Farmersrsquo Welfare Kailash Choudhary stood in third position in Rajasthanrsquos Barmer with a gap of 448 lakh votes from the winning candidate Ummeda Ram BeniwalUnion Minister of State for Fisheries Animal Husbandry and Dairying L Murugan lost to DMKrsquos A Raja by a big margin of 240585 lakh votes in Tamil Nadursquos NilgirisBJPrsquos north Bengal face and Union minister of state for home Nisith Pramanik lost the Cooch Behar seat to TMCrsquos Jagadish Chandra Basunia by over 39000 votesUnion minister Sanjeev Balyan lost the Muzaffarnagar Lok Sabha seat to Samajwadi Partyrsquos Harendra Singh Malik by a margin of over 24000 votes while Nityanand Rai grabbed the Ujiarpur Lok Sabha seat in Bihar defeating nearest rival Alok Mehta of the RJD by 4661 votesAmong the winners Union Home Minister Amit Shah swept the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat defeating his nearest Congress rival Sonal Patel by 744716 lakh votesDefence Minister and senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh won a third consecutive term from the prestigious Lucknow seat by a comfortable margin of 135159 votes over the Samajwadi Partyrsquos Ravidas MehrotraUnion minister of state for Defence and Tourism Ajay Bhatt won the NainitalUdham Singh Nagar Lok Sabha seat in Uttarakhand defeating Congressrsquo Prakash Joshi by 334548 votesTransport Minister Nitin Gadkari defeated his nearest rival Congressrsquo Vikas Thakare by 137603 votes to win the Nagpur Lok Sabha constituency while Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal appeared on course for an easy victory in Mumbai North with a confident lead of 356996 votesUnion Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav contesting his first Lok Sabha elections defeated his nearest rival Lalit Yadav of the Congress in Rajasthanrsquos Alwar by 48282 votesUnion Minister of Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur secured a fifth term from Himachal Pradeshrsquos Hamirpur seat defeating Congressrsquo Satpal Raizada by 182357 votesMoS Panchayati Raj Kapil Patil lost to Suresh Gopinath Mhatre of NCP Sharad Pawar in Maharashtrarsquos Bhiwandi and the Congressrsquo Kalyan Vaijnath Rao Kale defeated BJP leader and MoS Railways Raosaheb Danve in JalnaBhaskar Bhagare of NCP Sharad Pawar clinched the Dindori seat in the state trouncing Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Bharati Panwar by 113199 votes MoS Housing and Urban Affairs Kaushal Kishore is trailing SPrsquos RK Chaudhary by 70292 votesMinister of Earth Sciences Kiren Rijiju secured the Arunachal West seat defeating his nearest rival Nabam Tuki of the Congress by 100738 votesUnion ministers Arjun Ram Meghwal Bikaner and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Jodhpur won by 55711 and 115677 votes respectivelyHealth Minister Mansukh Mandaviya won Gujaratrsquos Porbandar by a comfortable margin of 383360 votesEducation Minister Dharmendra Pradhan won by 119836 votes against Pranab Prakash Das of the Biju Janata Dal BJD in Odisharsquos Sambalpur Culture Minister and BJP President in Telangana G Kishan Reddy clinched the Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency defeating his nearest Congress rival Danam Nagender by 49944 votesUnion ministers Pralhad Joshi and Shobha Karandlaje BJP posted wins in Dharwad and Bangalore North Lok Sabha segments respectively according to the Election Commission while another Union minister Bhagwanth Khuba was defeated in Bidar by Karnataka Minister Eshwar Khandrersquos son Sagar KhandreUnion minister of state for ports shipping and waterways Shantanu Thakur was leading in West Bengalrsquos Bongaon seat by 73693 votesUnion minister of state for commerce and industry Anupriya Patel defeated Samajwadi Partyrsquos Ramesh Chand Bind by a margin of 37810 votes in Mirzapur parliamentary seat of Uttar PradeshThe BJP suffered stunning losses in three Hindi heartland states partial poll results showed Tuesday forcing the party to rely on allies to form the government after a bitter and divisive election that was projected as a referendum on Prime Minister Narendra Modirsquos popularityAfter 12 hours of counting of votes that began at 8 am the BJP won or was ahead in 240 seats to emerge as the single largest party a far cry from the 303 it had won last time in the 543member Lok Sabha to mark the return of coalition politicsBJPrsquos key allies N Chandrababu Naidursquos TDP and Nitish Kumarrsquos JDU were leading or winning 16 and 12 seats in Andhra Pradesh and Bihar respectively With the support of its other allies the BJPled National Democratic Alliance was on course to reach the 272 majority markThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday 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