Who Is Bajrang Sonawara, MP From Beed Lok Sabha Constituency?

In the Lok Sabha seat of Maharashtra, NCP(SP) candidate Bajrang Sonawara won by securing 683,950 votes. He emerged victorious by defeating the BJP candidate Pankaja with a vote margin of 6,553 votes.

Bajrang Sonawara is the NCP (SP) candidate from the constituency. He had contested unsuccessfully against BJP’s Pritam in the 2019 Lok Sabha election. The last time the NCP has won the seat was in 2004 general election.

BJP has fielded former Maharashtra minister Pankaja Munde as its candidate instead of her sister Pritam who has been holding the seat for the last two terms. Pankaja was earlier defeated in the Parli assembly seat in 2019.

The election was seen as a political battle between the Maratha and the OBC voters, the two most dominant communities in the constituency.

In the 2014 election, Gopinath Munde contest and won the election in BJP ticket for the second time. However, he later met with an accident and died just nine days after he took oath as a union minister in the modi government. Later in the by-election, his daughter, Pritam Munde defeated her rival and Congress candidate Ashok Shankarrao by securing 922,416 votes.

In the 2019 election, Pritam retained the seat by receiving 678,175 votes. NCPs Bajranh Manohar came second with 509,807 votes and VBAs Vishnu Jadhav came third with 14,166 votes.

The Maha Vikas Agadhi has toppled the exit poll results and has won from the state sweeping majority of the seats.