Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Meet Mukesh Dalal, The First Candidate To Be Announced Winner

Mukesh Dalal, the BJP candidate from Surat,?Gujarat?has created history by becoming the first person to be declared winner in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.?Dalal was on Monday elected unopposed from?the Surat?Lok Sabha seat as all other?remaining candidates withdrew from the fray.?

BCCL

How Mukesh Dalal?became MP before vote?

The candidature of the?Congress'?Nilesh Kumbhani?was rejected?a day earlier after the district returning officer prima facie found discrepancies in the signature of the proposers.?The nomination form of Suresh Padsala, the?Congress'?"substitute"?candidate from?Surat, was also invalidated, leaving just seven independents in the fray.

"I?declare that Mukeshkumar Chandrakant Dalal, sponsored by the BJP, has been duly elected to fill the seat in the House from?Surat?parliamentary constituency,"?election officer Saurabh Pardhi told?reporters,?after handing over the certificate of election to Dalal on Monday.?

PTI

Who is Mukesh Dalal

The 63-year-old?who?has previously served as a corporator?for Surat Municipal Corporation, a?member of the?Surat District Cricket Association committee, and chairman of?People’s?Cooperative Bank in?Surat?has?been elected?to the Lok Sabha for the first time.

He is also the first candidate to be elected unopposed from Gujarat since its formation 64 years ago?though?and?the first BJP candidate to become a Lok Sabha MP without a contest.

IANS

Lok Sabha election in Gujarat

Gujarat?which?has?26 Lok Sabha?seats?will vote on May 7 in a single phase.

A total of 265 candidates are in the fray for 25 out of 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat, an official said on Monday, which was the last date?for withdrawal of?nominations.

Between April 12 and 19,?a total of?433 candidates submitted nomination forms for 26 Lok Sabha seats. During the scrutiny process held on April 20 and 21, the?nomination forms of 105 Lok Sabha candidates?were rejected, taking the number down to 328. After 62 eligible Lok Sabha candidates withdrew their nomination forms?till?Monday, 266 candidates were left.

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