BJP in Arunachal Pradesh Clinches Both Lok Sabha Seats

Itanagar: The BJP in Arunachal Pradesh clinched both the Lok Sabha seats by huge margins, a trend in favour of the saffron brigade which was witnessed throughout the country on Thursday.

Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju, who was locked in a multi-cornered contest in the Arunachal West Parliamentary seat with total seven contestants, won from the constituency by a huge margin of 1,74, 843 votes defeating his nearest rival Nabam Tuki of the Congress. Rijiju polled a total votes of 2, 25, 796 while Tuki could manage only 50, 953 votes.

The junior Home Minister also won the seat in 2014 by a margin of 41738 votes.

In the Eastern Arunachal seat which too witnessed a multi-cornered contest with five candidates in the fray, BJP State unit president Tapir Gao wrests the seat from Congress.

Gao defeated his nearest rival Lowangcha Wangat of Congress by a margin of 69, 948 votes.

Gao polled a total of 1,53,883 votes, while Wanglat polled 83,935 votes.

Ninong Ering of the Congress won from the seat in 2014 by a margin of 12478 votes defeating Gao.

Gao had also won from the seat in 2009 general elections.

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