Politics
The Union Tribal Affairs Minister, Arjun Munda, was defeated by Congress's Kalicharan Munda by 1.49,675 in Jharkhand's Kunti constituency.
Ajay Mishra Teni, the Union Minister of State Affairs, lost to the Samajwadi Party's Utkarsh Verma by 34,329 votes in Lakhimpuri Kheri.
Union Minister of Women and Child Development, Smriti Irani, was defeated by Congress's Kishori Lal by 1,67,196 votes.
Former Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare of India, Kailash Choudhary lost to Congress candidate Ummeda Ram Beniwal by 4.48 lakh votes.
Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology lost to Congress candidate Shashi Tharoor by over 16,077 votes in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram.
Union Minister of Heavy Industries, Mahendra Nath Pandey, was defeated by Virendra Singh from the Samajwadi Party in Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh.
Minister of State for Rural Development of India, Niranjan Jyoti, was defeated by Naresh Uttam Patel of the Samajwadi Party in Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh.
Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways of India, Raosaheb Danve lost to Indian National Congress candidate, Kalyan Vaijinathrao Kale in Jalna, Maharashtra.
Minister of Power of India, R.K. Singh was defeated by CPI (ML)'s Sudama Prasad in Arrah, Bihar.
Union Minister Sanjeev Balyan lost to Samajwadi Party's Harendra Singh Malik in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh.
V. Muraleedharan lost to Adoor Prakash of the National Indian Congress in Attingal, Kerala.
Union Minister L. Murugan lost to DMK's Andimuthu Raja by 2,40,585 in Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu.
Union Minister Nisith Pramanik lost to TMC's Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia in Cooch Behar, West Bengal by over 39,000 votes.
Subhas Sarkar lost to Arup Chakraborty of the TMC in Bankura, West Bengal, by over 32,778 votes.