Many MPs won in 2014 without votes, says study

Guwahati | Tuesday | 26th March, 2019

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He only got 394,702 votes; whereas his contender from BJP Chandra Mohan Patowary lost to him with a margin of over 42,000 votes.”Sonowal had got 612,543 votes in the last Lok Sabha election out of 1,430,994 total voters in the Lakhimpur constituency. The report said, “Out of 1,430,175 voters in Barpeta, at least 1,035,473 did not vote for Ajmal. Later in 2016, he became the chief minister of the state and Pradan Baruah succeeded him.Former chief minister Tarun Gogoi’s son and Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi won from the Kaliabor Lok Sabha constituency in 2014 with 443,315 voters in his favour. In Kaliabor, there were at least 1,457,865 voters in the last election. Sarania is fighting this election again..