After two consecutive Lok Sabha elections defeats earlier, the Indian National Congress this time is leading in the Solapur constituency of Maharashtra. Having secured over 50% of the EVM votes counted so far, INC’s Praniti Sushilkumar Shinde defeated BJP candidate Ram Vithal Satpute on Tuesday, June 4 with a margin of over 18,000 votes.
Praniti Shinde is the daughter of veteran leader Sushilkumar Shinde, the 2009 MP from Solapur, a constituency reserved for Scheduled Castes. In 2019, he lost to the Lingayat seer Jaysiddheswar Shivacharya who was the BJP’s candidate. In 2014, he lost to BJP’s Sharad Bansode.