Ahmadabad: Even though Narendra Modi has defeated his nearest Congress rival Madhusudan Mistry by an impressive 5,70,128 votes in Vadodara, he was unfortunate to surpass the record of highest margin of victory created by Anil Basu of CPI-M.
The BJP’s prime ministerial candidate’s margin of victory in the Lok Sabha polls is the second best after Anil Basu. He was a seven-time MP and created history by winning the Arambagh seat in West Bengal by 5,92,502 votes which was 22,374 more than Modi.
The earlier record in this regard was in the name of LJP chief Ramvilas Paswan. He as a Janata Dal candidate, had won Hajipur seat in Bihar by a whopping margin of 5,04,448 votes in 1989.
Paswan, whose party is now in the NDA, had then broken his own record set in 1977 when he had won the seat as Bhartiya Lok Dal nominee by a margin of 4,24,545 votes.
After Paswan in 1989 and Basu in 2004, Modi is the third politician to register victory by a margin of over five lakh votes.

Video on Narendra Modi addressing a rally at Ahmedabad