Check Out Union Ministers Who Lost 2024 Polls, They Include Smriti Irani To Rajeev Chandrasekhar

New Delhi: Several BJP heavyweights including Smriti Irani, Arjun Munda and Rajeev Chandrasekhar lost the elections in in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Some major BJP stalwarts who lost:

Smriti Irani: She lost in Amethi. She had hogged the limelight by defeating Rahul Gandhi in 2019. She lost to Congress candidate Kishori Lal Sharma by a margin of 1,67,196 votes in 2024.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar: In Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram, the Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, lost to Congress stalwart Shashi Tharoor by over 16,077 votes.

Ajay Mishra Teni: The Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, embroiled in the controversial Lakhimpur Kheri incident, was defeated by the Samajwadi Party’s Utkarsh Verma by over 34,329 votes.

Arjun Munda: The Union Tribal Affairs Minister lost to Congress candidate Kalicharan Munda by 1,49,675 votes.

Kailash Choudhary: In Rajasthan’s Barmer, Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Kailash Choudhary, finished third, trailing by 4.48 lakh votes behind the victorious Ummeda Ram Beniwal of the Congress.

Some other BJP ministers, Mahendra Nath Pandey, Kaushal Kishore, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Sanjeev Balyan, Rao Saheb Danve, RK Singh, V Muraleedharan, L Murugan, Subhas Sarkar and Nishith Pramanik were also defeated in the recent polls.