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Advani quits as opposition leader
New Delhi: LK Advani has quit as the opposition leader of the Loksabha following NDA's defeat in the elections.
Sources
indicate
that
Sushma
Swaraj,
Rajnath
Singh
and
Jaswant
Singh
are
in
the
race
for
the
post
of
opposition
leader.
Advani
managed
to
win
the
Gandhinagar
seat
by
over
100,000
votes,
almost
half
his
2004
victory
margin
of
217,138
votes.
The BJP leader, who contested the Lok Sabha polls for the fifth consecutive time, found his victory margin reduced due to the delimitation exercise in the Gandhinagar constituency that brought down the number of voters.
OneIndia
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Story first published: Saturday, May 16, 2009, 18:41 [IST]