SSC CPO 2020 PYQ — Question 88

SSC CPO - 25 Nov 2020 - Shift 2 • General Awareness • Q88

Former cricketer Gautam Gambhir contested the Lok Sabha elections, 2019, from the ______
constituency on a Bharatiya Janata Party ticket

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Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is option 1 i.e. East Delhi

  • Gautam Gambhir had won the East Delhi Lok Sabha constituency seat.
  • He had defeated Congress candidate Arvinder Singh Lovely by 3,91,222 votes.
  • BJP alone fetched 302 seats out of 541 Lok Sabha seats and formed the government for the second time.