Farooq Abdullah (L) and TT Krishnamachari (R) had additionally received Lok Sabha polls unopposed from the Congress. (Photographs: PTI/X)
The BJP leaders expressed happiness over his win and stated that the “first lotus” has bloomed within the nation
Mukesh Dalal, the Bharatiya Janata Celebration’s candidate from Surat, Gujarat, received the Lok Sabha elections unopposed on Monday after the Returning Officer rejected the Congress’ decide and different candidates withdrew their nomination.
That is the primary time {that a} BJP candidate received uncontested. The final time such a victory occurred was when Mohammad Shafi Bhat of the Nationwide Convention received the Srinagar parliamentary seat unopposed in Jammu and Kashmir.
Earlier than Dalal, as many as 25 candidates received the final elections unopposed. Let’s check out these earlier victories:
| S.NO | YEAR | CANDIDATE | PARTY | CONSTITUENCY | STATE |
| 1 | 1951 | TA Ramalinga Chettiar | INC | Coimbatore | Tamil Nadu |
| 2 | 1951 | T Sangana | INC | Rayagada Phulba | Odisha |
| 3 | 1951 | Krishna Charya Joshi | INC | Yadgir | Hyderabad |
| 4 | 1951 | Main Gen MS Himatsinhji | INC | Halar | Saurashtra |
| 5 | 1951 | Anand Chand | IND | Bilaspur | Bilaspur |
| 6 | 1957 | D Satyanarayana Raju | INC | Rajamundry | Andhra Pradesh |
| 7 | 1957 | TN Vishwanath Reddy | INC | Rajampet | Andhra Pradesh |
| 8 | 1957 | Sangam Lakshmi Bai | INC | Vicarabad | Andhra Pradesh |
| 9 | 1957 | Bijoy Chandra Bhagavati | INC | Darrang | Assam |
| 10 | 1957 | Mangrubabu Uike | INC | Mandla | Madhya Pradesh |
| 11 | 1957 | T Ganapathy | INC | Tiruchendur | Madras |
| 12 | 1957 | J Siddananjappa H | INC | Hassan | Madras |
| 13 | 1962 | TT Krishnamachari | INC | Tiruchendur | Madras |
| 14 | 1962 | Harekrushna Mahtab | INC | Angul | Odisha |
| 15 | 1962 | Manabendra Shah | INC | Tehri Garhawal | Uttar Pradesh |
| 16 | 1967 | KL Rao | INC | Vijayawada | Andhra Pradesh |
| 17 | 1967 | R Brahma | INC | Kokrajhar | Assam |
| 18 | 1967 | MS Qureshi | INC | Anantnag | Jammu and Kashmir |
| 19 | 1967 | Okay Bakula | INC | Ladakh | Jammu and Kashmir |
| 20 | 1967 | Chubatoshi | NNO | Nagaland | Nagaland |
| 21 | 1971 | Padanatha Mohammed Sayeed | INC | LM and A Islands | Laccadive, Minicoy, and Amindivi Islands |
| 22 | 1977 | Rinchin Khandu Khimre | INC | Arunachal West | Arunachal Pradesh |
| 23 | 1977 | Chatra Bahadur Chhetri | INC | Sikkim | Sikkim |
| 24 | 1980 | JKN | Srinagar | Jammu and Kashmir | |
| 25 | 1989 | JKN | Srinagar | Jammu and Kashmir | |
| 26 | 2024 | Mukeshkumar Dalal | BJP | Surat | Gujarat |
Notably, Dala’s unopposed victory stirred a political controversy, with opposition leaders, together with Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, slamming the choice. However different BJP leaders expressed happiness over his win and stated that the “first lotus” has bloomed within the nation.
Mukesh Dalal’s win comes nearly two weeks earlier than the polling for the third of the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections. All 26 seats of Gujarat will go into polling on Could 7.
The primary part of Lok Sabha polls overlaying 21 states and Union Territories occurred on April 19. The second part polling is about to happen on April 26.
On this basic election, round 97 crore individuals will elect their representatives from 543 constituencies and as per knowledge, a 6 per cent enhance has been famous within the registered voters from the 2019 LS polls.
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