India General Elections 2014: Big Names that Lost the Elections

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India General elections 2014: Big Names that Lost the Elections

Many big names conceded defeat in the recently concluded general elections 2014. Many congress leaders lost to BJP leaders. Nearly sixty big leaders were lost.

New Delhi: Few big names that lost in the general elections 2014 are Jaswanth Singh who left BJP as he was not given the seat he wanted, Sharad Yadav, Arvind Kejriwal, central minister Ajit Singh, ex Lok Sabha speaker Meera Kumar and Girija Vyas, Uttar Pradesh Congress party leader.

  • Central home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde contested from Sholapur Maharashtra and is defeated. Nandan Nilekani, congress contestant from south Bangalore, Gulam Nabi Azad, central minister Salman Khurshid who contested from Farukhabad- Uttar Pradesh, Rabdi Devi (Wife of Laloo Prasad Yadav), Farooq Abdullah, central minister Kishore Chandradev are some of the candidates that lost the elections.
  • Kapil Sibal: Kapil Sibal contested from Chandni Chowk on behalf of Congress. He lost to BJP candidate Harsh Vardhan.
  • Nandan Nilekani: candidate for congress from Bangalore South, this billionaire lost to BJP candidate Ananth Kumar.
  • Salman Khurshid: Salman who contested as MP from Farrukhabad constituency in Uttar Pradesh but this time lost to Samajwadi party candidate Rameshwar Singh.
  • Arvind Kejriwal: General elections 2014 are the first parliamentary elections for Kejriwal and his party. He contested opposite to Narendra Modi from Varanasi but is defeated. Arvind Kejriwal formed government at Delhi after winning elections for assembly. He resigned as Delhi chief minister only in a few days. Now he lost to Narendra Modi by a difference of nearly forty thousand votes.
  • Central minister Gulam Nabi Azad contested from Udhampur Lok Sabha constituency. This seat is always won by Congress. But this time Azad lost to hi rival, BJP candidates Jitender Singh by sixty thousand votes.
  • Central home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde contested from Sholapur in Maharashtra and lost to BJP candidate Sharad. In the previous elections he won from Sholapur.
  • Lok Sabha speaker Meera Kumar contested from Sasaram seat in Bihar but lost to BJP leader Paswan by nearly sixty thousand votes.
  • Central minister Sachin Pilot is another big name that lost the elections. He contested from Ajmer in Rajasthan.