Nanded: Congress candidate Ravindra Chavan on Saturday won the Nanded Lok Sabha by-poll defeating his nearest rival Santukrao Hambarde of BJP by 1457 votes, an official said.
Chavan polled 586788 votes while Hambarde garnered 585331 votes, the official said. The bypoll was necessitated due to the death of sitting Congress MP Vasant Chavan on August 26. Ravindra Chavan is his son.
The decision of the Congress to field Ravindra Chavan yielded rich dividends as he managed to win the by-poll on a day when the Mahayuti retained power in Maharashtra.
The win in Nanded and Wayanad by-polls, from where Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi won, means that the Mallikarjun Kharge-led party will have two more MPs in the Lower House of the Parliement.
Pratap Patil Chikhalikar, who won the 2019 Lok Sabha poll for the Nanded seat as a BJP candidate, had defeated Ashok Chavan who was then with the Congress. Chikhalikar lost the 2024 Lok Sabha poll from Nanded to Vasant Chavan by more than 59,000 votes While Ashok Chavan joined the BJP in February this year, Chikhalikar is now with the Ajit Pawar-led NCP and contested the assembly poll from Loha in Nanded, which he has represented twice as an MLA.
The loss in Nanded is another set back to BJP leader Ashok Chavan, who is a Rajya Sabha MP.
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