Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony is scheduled to take place today. This will be his third inauguration after 2014 and 2019. A host of actors, from Rajinikanth to Kangana Ranaut and Hema Malini, are expected to attend.
Indian film stars shone in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, with voters showing their faith in newcomers Kangana Ranaut and Arun Govil, as well as re-elected MPs Hema Malini, Manoj Tiwari and Ravi Kishan.
India held seven elections between April 19 and June 1 to elect a 543-member House of Representatives for the 18th term. State elections were also held simultaneously in Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim. Vote counting took place on Tuesday.
In his first election, Ranaut defeated rival Vikramaditya Singh of the Indian National Congress in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, by 74,755 votes, compared to 537,002 votes for Ranaut and 462,267 for King, who represents the former Rampur state. King is the state's public works minister and son of six-time chief minister Virbhadra Singh and the Indian National Congress' Pratibha Singh.
Hema Malini won her third consecutive term in the Lok Sabha elections from Mathura (Uttar Pradesh) by winning 510,064 votes compared to the 293,407 votes won by the front-runner, Mukesh Dangar of the Indian National Congress.
Tiwari, a former Bollywood film star and BJP candidate from northeast Delhi, defeated his Indian National Congress rival Kanya Kumar by a margin of more than 138,000 votes.
This will be Tiwari's third consecutive victory from the seat. He won 8,24,451 votes in the 2024 general elections. He was the only sitting Delhi MP to be retained by the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 18th Lok Sabha elections.
BJP candidate Kishan from Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh was elected for a second consecutive term, polling 5,85,834 votes. He retained the constituency by defeating Samajwadi Party's Kajal Nishad by 1,03,526 votes.
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