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Celebrity candidates: Who made it, who didn't
From Bollywood item girls to cricketing greats, celebrities upped the glam quotient this poll season.
Some we will see as future MPs, the others just have to get back to business.
Rediff.com takes a look at some popular faces, who fought Election 2014 and here’s the verdict on them.
We start off with Aam Aadmi Party’s Gul Panag loses in Chandigarh to Bharatiya Janata Party’s Kirron Kher and Congress’ Pawan Kumar Bansal.
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Celebrity candidates: Who made it, who didn't
BJP’s Kirron Kher wins by nearly 65,000 votes.
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Probably the biggest loser of 2014! ‘Mirchi candidate’ Rakhi Sawant, who contested on a Rashtriya Aam Party, garners less than 1000 votes from Mumbai’s North-West constituency.
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‘Sandalwood Queen’ Divya Spandana (Ramya), a Congress candidate trails in Mandya where she is up against Janata Dal-Secular’s C S Puttaraju.
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Yesteryear actress and Trinamool Congress Moon Moon Sen wins in Bankura. She defeats nine-time MP Basudeb Acharia of the CPI(M
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Saffron wave grips West Bengal’s Asansol. Singer Babul Supriyo emerges winner.
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Actor Paresh Rawal, contesting on a BJP ticket, wins from Ahmedabad-east.
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Bollywood’s ‘Basanti’ Hema Mailini wins in Mathura. She is contesting from a BJP ticket.
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Popular actress of the 80s Jaya Prada loses Bijnor after contesting from the Rashtriya Lok Dal ticket.
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Filmmaker Mahesh Manjrekar loses from Mumbai North-West constituency. Contesting from Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena he gets around d56,000 votes.
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Congress’ Raj Babbar loses in Ghaziabad. He was up against former army chief V K Singh and AAP’s Shazia Illmi.
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BJP’s Vinod Khanna wins from Gurdaspur.
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AAP’s Javed Jafri loses from Lucknow to BJP’s Rajath Singh.
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Former cricket skipper Mohammed Azharuddin, contesting from Congress, loses from Tonk-Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan.
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Trinamool’s Baichung Bhutia fails to score a goal against BJP’s S S Ahluwalia in Darjeeling.
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Congress candidate from Phulpur, Mohammad Kaif, fails to impress voters. He was facing BPP’s Keshav Prasad Maurya.
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Filmmaker Prakash Jha loses from West Champaran in Bihar. He is defeated from the constituency for the third time.
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Congress’ Nagma loses from Meerut.
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Ravi Kishen loses Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh where he was contesting from a Congress ticket.
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King of Bling Bappi Lahiri fails to shine in the Lok Sabha contest. A BJP candidate, he loses Sreerampur.
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Shotgun Shatrugan Sinha wins from Patna Sahib where he is contesting from a BJP ticket.
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