The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has not only won 10 seats with good margin in the lok Sabha polls but it has also received twice the votes of the Congress in few Assembly segments of the State.
State Congress leaders are now busy reviewing the election results and trying to find out the reason behind crushing defeat of the party in the lok Sabha polls.Out of the 10 lok Sabha seats won by BJP, the party has registered victory at two constituencies by a margin of more than two lakh votes. In five other constituencies, the margin is above one lakh.
The BJP has received almost double the number of votes received by Congress in one Assembly segment each of four Parliamentary constituencies.In Jashpur Assembly constituency of Raigarh, the Congress candidate Arti Singh has received 45,337 votes. On the other hand, BJP candidate Vishnudev Sai has received 92,394 votes which are more than double the number of votes received by Arti Singh.
In Kunkari Assembly constituency also the margin was more than 40,000 votes.In Bilaspur Assembly segment of Bilaspur Parliamentary constituency, the Congress candidate Karuna Shukla received 40,766 votes. Whereas BJP candidate lakhanlal Sahu received 83,831 votes which is more than double.
In Rajnandgaon Assembly constituency of Rajnandgaon Parliamentary seat, the BJP candidate Abhishek Singh received 89,905 votes which were more than two times of 44,591 votes received by Congress candidate Kamleshwar Verma.In Kanker Assembly constituency, BJP candidate Vikram Usendi received twice the number of votes received by Congress candidate Phulo Devi Netam. Usendi received 55,455 votes whereas Phulo Devi Netam received 27,175 votes.