BJP Wins In Gujarat's Anand Constituency, Snatches Seat From Congress
NDTV
Yogesh Patel defeated sitting Congress MLA Kanti Sodha Parmar in Anand, the home of world famous Amul dairy brand.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Yogesh Patel on Thursday wrested the Anand Assembly constituency in Gujarat from the Congress with a comfortable margin of 41,623 votes, bringing the prestigious seat back into the kitty of the saffron party which had won it multiple times since 1992, but lost in 2017.
He defeated sitting Congress MLA Kanti Sodha Parmar in Anand, the home of world famous Amul dairy brand.
Yogesh Patel polled 1,11,859 votes as against Mr Sodha Parmar's 70,236.
The Congress and the BJP were locked in a neck-and-neck fight in initial rounds of counting, but in the end the saffron outfit emerged victorious with a comfortable vote gap.
