Lok Sabha Election Results 2024: Shocker from Ayodhya as BJP leader loses Faizabad, the seat that houses Ram Mandir

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024: The Samajwadi Party candidate Awadesh Prasad defeated the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Lallu Singh in Faizabad Lok Sabha seat by over 54,567 votes, the Election Commission of India said. Temple city Ayodhya – the site of Ram Temple – falls under Faizabad seat, one of the 80 Lok Sabha seats of Uttar Pradesh.

Prasad bagged 5,54, 289 votes while his closest rival Singh was at 4,99,722 votes, as per the latest poll panel numbers.

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In January, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya – an event which many saw would fetch electoral benefits for the BJP in 2024 general elections.

Lallu Singh had won the Faizabad seat in 2014 and 2019.

INDIA bloc parties, the Samajwadi Party and the Congress, were leading on 40 of the 80 UP seats. The BJP was leading on 36 seats till last updates on Election Commission of India website. In 2019, the BJP had bagged 62 seats from Uttar Pradesh. 

Overall across the country, the BJP-led NDA has bagged 293 seats while the INDIA bloc got 232 seats defying all exit poll predictions as counting is underway across 542 seats on June 4.

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The counting of votes for Lok Sabha Elections 2024 began at 8 am. All eyes are on whether the exit poll predictions will hold ground and Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) comes back to power with a historic third straight term.

A party or a coalition needs to win at least 272 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats to be in power at the centre. With one seat, Surat already decided in NDA's kitty unopposed, votes for 542 seats will be counted today.