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Against the odds: 4 MPs and their unlikely triumphs in India’s election
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(Clockwise from top left) Ms Iqra Hasan, Mr Abdul Rashid Sheikh, Mr Amritpal Singh and Ms Sanjana Jatav staged stunning wins.
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BENGALURU/KOLKATA – India’s recently concluded general election surprised many with the lacklustre victory for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). But beyond that obvious headline-grabbing outcome, the election in the world’s largest and incredibly diverse democracy
The Straits Times profiles four candidates who staged stunning wins in this election – two of them fought and won from jail, while the other two are women – to highlight the aspirations of the nearly two million voters who chose them as their representatives in India’s 18th Parliament.
