Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad is set to join the hall of shame of senior cabinet ministers who faced drubbing at the hands of their rival BJP candidates in the fray.
At the end of the 11 round of counting Azas was trailing behind his rival candidate of the BJP by a margin of over 46,000 votes.
Azad garnered 358783 votes while Dr Jitendra Singh had established a healthy lead of over 46,000 votes by securing 405597 votes from Udhampur-Doda lok Sabha seat.
The BJP candidate from Jammu Jugal Kishore Sharma was inching closer to historic victory as he had already established a lead of over 2.23 lakh votes over his rival candidate from the Congress party.