The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday won four Lok Sabha seats, one of which was wrested from the Congress, and maintained an impressive lead in six other constituencies in Chhattisgarh, as per the latest trends.
The Congress is ahead in just one seat, Korba, where its sitting MP Jyotsna Mahant, wife of Leader of Opposition in the assembly Charandas Mahant, is in the lead against BJP’s influential woman leader Saroj Pandey. Chhattisgarh has 11 Lok Sabha seats.
In Durg, BJP’s sitting MP Vijay Baghel posted victory by defeating his nearest rival Rajendra Sahu of Congress by a significant margin of 4,38,226 votes.
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