BJP is winning in Uttar Pradesh. But who is the candidate who has created the record of winning the election with the biggest margin?
He is not Raja Bhaiya. He is not a 'big leader' of any party. He is a lesser-known leader at the state level. Name is Sunil Sharma.
BJP's Sunil Sharma has won the election from the Sahibabad Assembly constituency of Ghaziabad district by 1.50 lakh votes. He defeated sitting MLA Amarpal Sharma from here by a record margin. Such a huge margin of victory in the assembly elections is astonishing.
Whereas the flamboyant Amarpal Sharma got the best MLA award from the Speaker in the last assembly. Last time he won by defeating Sunil Sharma on a BSP ticket. But this time just before the election, he started peeping here and there. After which Mayawati fired him for anti-party activities. After that, he brought a ticket from Congress. Due to his influence, Congress got this seat in the SP-Congress alliance.
But Sunil Sharma, 54, a lawyer by profession, has avenged his defeat this time. He is also a member of the State Executive of BJP. He contested from the same seat in the 2012 elections as well but lost to Amarpal Sharma by a margin of 24 thousand votes. In 2007, Sunil Sharma became an MLA for the first time by winning from the Ghaziabad Assembly.
The interesting thing is that this time Sunil Sharma was facing the danger of getting a ticket cut. When the BJP had not finalized the tickets, there was talk that Pankaj Singh, son of Home Minister Rajnath Singh, could be fielded from Sahibabad. But he wanted to fight from Noida, from where MP Mahesh Sharma was engaged in getting a ticket to Vimla Batham. But in the end, the party gave Pankaj Singh the ticket of Noida and the ticket of Sunil Sharma was saved in Sahibabad.
The record of the biggest victory in the 2012 elections was held by independent Bahubali Raghuraj Pratap Singh 'Raja Bhaiya'. He defeated Shivprakash Mishra of BSP by 88255 votes from Kunda.