Mukesh Dalal, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s candidate from Surat, Gujarat, won the Lok Sabha elections unopposed on Monday after the Returning Officer rejected the Congress’ pick and other candidates withdrew their nomination.
The last time such a victory took place was when Mohammad Shafi Bhat of the National Conference won the Srinagar parliamentary seat unopposed in Jammu and Kashmir.
Mukesh Dalal’s win comes just about two weeks before the polling for the third of the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections.
The first phase of Lok Sabha polls covering 21 states and Union Territories took place on April 19.
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Mukesh Dalal, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s candidate from Surat, Gujarat, won the Lok Sabha elections unopposed on Monday after the Returning Officer rejected the Congress’ pick and other candidates withdrew their nomination.
This is the first time that a BJP candidate won uncontested. The last time such a victory took place was when Mohammad Shafi Bhat of the National Conference won the Srinagar parliamentary seat unopposed in Jammu and Kashmir.
Before Dalal, as many as 25 candidates won the general elections unopposed. Let’s take a look at these previous victories:
S.NO YEAR CANDIDATE PARTY CONSTITUENCY STATE 1 1951 TA Ramalinga Chettiar INC Coimbatore Tamil Nadu 2 1951 T Sangana INC Rayagada Phulba Odisha 3 1951 Krishna Charya Joshi INC Yadgir Hyderabad 4 1951 Major Gen MS Himatsinhji INC Halar Saurashtra 5 1951 Anand Chand IND Bilaspur Bilaspur 6 1957 D Satyanarayana Raju INC Rajamundry Andhra Pradesh 7 1957 TN Vishwanath Reddy INC Rajampet Andhra Pradesh 8 1957 Sangam Lakshmi Bai INC Vicarabad Andhra Pradesh 9 1957 Bijoy Chandra Bhagavati INC Darrang Assam 10 1957 Mangrubabu Uike INC Mandla Madhya Pradesh 11 1957 T Ganapathy INC Tiruchendur Madras 12 1957 J Siddananjappa H INC Hassan Madras 13 1962 TT Krishnamachari INC Tiruchendur Madras 14 1962 Harekrushna Mahtab INC Angul Odisha 15 1962 Manabendra Shah INC Tehri Garhawal Uttar Pradesh 16 1967 KL Rao INC Vijayawada Andhra Pradesh 17 1967 R Brahma INC Kokrajhar Assam 18 1967 MS Qureshi INC Anantnag Jammu and Kashmir 19 1967 K Bakula INC Ladakh Jammu and Kashmir 20 1967 Chubatoshi NNO Nagaland Nagaland 21 1971 Padanatha Mohammed Sayeed INC LM and A Islands Laccadive, Minicoy, and Amindivi Islands 22 1977 Rinchin Khandu Khimre INC Arunachal West Arunachal Pradesh 23 1977 Chatra Bahadur Chhetri INC Sikkim Sikkim 24 1980 Farooq Abdullah JKN Srinagar Jammu and Kashmir 25 1989 Mohammad Shafi Bhat JKN Srinagar Jammu and Kashmir 26 2024 Mukeshkumar Dalal BJP Surat Gujarat
Notably, Dala’s unopposed victory stirred a political controversy, with opposition leaders, including Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, slamming the decision. But other BJP leaders expressed happiness over his win and said that the “first lotus” has bloomed in the nation.
Mukesh Dalal’s win comes just about two weeks before the polling for the third of the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections. All 26 seats of Gujarat will go into polling on May 7.
The first phase of Lok Sabha polls covering 21 states and Union Territories took place on April 19. The second phase polling is set to take place on April 26.
In this general election, around 97 crore people will elect their representatives from 543 constituencies and as per data, a 6 per cent increase has been noted in the registered voters from the 2019 LS polls.
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