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Election Fever

The days of election are so hectic that the heat generated would melt the snow. Famous journalist Ravi Rai witnessed the candidates in the fray when he visited the party office of the ruling party soon after the declaration of elections. Ticket-seekers inundated the offices of their respective parties. When Ravi Rai visited the ruling party office, he noticed a group of five prospective candidates, sitting in a corner and discussing ways and means to obtain tickets. These five-Khuda Baksh, GuruBaksh Singh, Jacob.R, Param Priya Das, and Banwari Prasad were close friends. They had won their last elections from Khichdabas, Dansai (Reserved), Peerwand, Banku (Reserved), and Sidhauda.

They had entered politics different times and hence the experience of contesting elections was not uniform. If one was a first timer, the other was contesting for second or third time and so on. In the last election they had defeated their rivals by 3, 54,191; 71,917; 99,998 and 1, 35,971 votes. Ravi Rai collected the following information about the results:

          Khuda Baksh had contested for the fourth time. His winning margin was more than Jacob.R but less than GuruBaksh Singh. Banwari Prasad has defeated his rival by a large margin of votes. His lone rival was Darshan Rai whom he had defeated by 17,981 votes, making it difficult for Darshan Rai to save his security though he had managed to save it somehow.

Banwari Prasad however had lost an unimportant opposition candidate in his second elections. Banwari Prasad had never contested from Dansai. Param Priya Das’s winning margin was neither greater nor narrowest. But he won the election securing more votes than Banwari Prasad. Param Priya Das won the election from Khichdabas.

Jacob.R rival Gibson was defeated twice by Peter earlier. Both had never contested from Sidhauda. The candidate from Dansai had contested only one till then.

Ravi Rai could not understand who contested from where? He was puzzled.

Can you tell?

1.    Who defeated whom?

2.    By whom many votes?

3.    How many times the winner had contested the last elections?

It should be remembered that the party tickets will be given to the candidates on the basis of correct answers to the above.

 

S.no of candidates	Constituency	Defeated by votes	Election NO. contested
1. Khuda Baksh	Sidhauda	99,998	4
2.GuruBaksh Singh	Dansai(R)	1,35,971	1
3.Jacob.R	Peerwand	35	5
4.Param Priya Das	Khichdabas	4,191	24,191
5.Banwari Prasad	Banku(R)	71,917	71,9173

 

Notes:

1.    Christians and Muslims cannot contest from “R” constituency

2.    Must obtain 1/6 of total votes cast to save security from being confiscated.