Bathinda, May 16Putting all predictions of a close finish at rest, SAD (B) candidate Harsimrat Kaur Badal today recorded a thumping win defeating her nearest rival of the Congress Raninder Singh by a margin of 1,20,948 votes.
Harsimrat, wife of deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal polled a total of 5,29,472 votes while Raninder Singh, son of former CM Captain Amarinder Singh got 4,08,524 votes.
BSP candidate Nem Chand Chaudhary got 35,094 votes while CPI candidate Hardev Singh Arshi got 20,020 votes out of the total of 10,49,412 valid votes polled.
It may be mentioned that a total of 22 candidates were in poll fray from this high-profile constituency.
Surprisingly, except for Harsimrat and Raninder, no other candidate could manage to get even the minimum number of votes and had to forfeit their surety. Eighteen candidates failed to touch even the five-digit figure with many of them restricted to only 1000 to 2000 votes, in total.
Though the Returning Officer Rahul Tewari did not provide formal details, figures received from reliable sources, revealed that around 1184 votes from three EVMs could not be retrieved and 99 votes were polled through postal ballots, out of which 52 were for Raninder and 40 for Harsimrat.
From Lambi, the home turf of chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, his daughter-in-law Harsimrat got the maximum lead of 34895, polling 66924 votes against the 32029 votes for Raninder.
Except for Bathinda (Urban) and Mansa assembly segments where Harismrat got a setback lagging behind by 15289 and 1506 votes, respectively, she led in every round of counting in the remaining seven assembly segments.
From Bhucho, the margin was recorded at 18654 votes, in Bathinda (Rural) the margin was of 10854 votes, in Talwandi Sabo 14249, in Maur 14106, in Sardulgarh 23188 and in Budhlada, the margin for Harsimrat was recorded at 21809 votes.
A cheerful Harsimrat Kaur Badal, talking to TNS, said, "Captain Amarinder Singh used to call me Nanhi Chhaan, now I say to him that this Nanhi Chaan has uprooted his big tree."
On being asked about the loss of majority number of seats in the state, Sukhbir said, "It was unfortunate, but we will deeply analyze the issue to find reason for such loss."
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