Who is Chunav Raja: A total of 21 people have filed nominations against Congress’s Priyanka Gandhi from Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in Kerala. Generally, people stand in the elections so that they can win and do better work for the area, but among these 21 people, there is one face who is famous by the name of Election King and he stands in the elections only to lose. Are there. He has filed nomination for elections not just twice or four times but 245 times and has till now confiscated security worth lakhs of rupees.
Election Raja has contested elections not once or twice but 245 times. He is not the first person to do this. There are other people like him, who have contested elections 100-200 times. 65 year old KK Padmarajan from Tamil Nadu says that as long as he is alive, he will keep filling election papers and ask people not to vote for him. Padmarajan has contested Panchayat, Municipality, Assembly and even Lok Sabha elections. Whenever he goes to fill nomination forms, he takes a big band with him. No matter how much money it costs. Padmarajan’s name has been recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records as the candidate who contested and lost the maximum number of elections.
Elections also contested against three former PMs
The surprising thing is that Padmarajan has contested elections against three former Prime Ministers of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Manmohan Singh and PV Narasimha Rao. He claims that till now he has wasted his security deposit of more than Rs 80 lakh because his security deposit is confiscated in every election. In the year 2019, he contested elections against Rahul Gandhi. of 2024 Lok Sabha elections Contested elections from Thrissur in Kerala and Dharmapuri in Tamil Nadu.
Elections also contested against Jayalalitha and Hema Malini
Election Raja has also contested elections against Karunanidhi, Jayalalitha, YSR Reddy, AK Antony, Hema Malini and Vijayakanth and lost. The process of losing in elections started from 1988. He contested his first election in 1988 from his home town Mettur. He never campaigned in any of his elections because he wanted to maintain the tag of an unsuccessful candidate. He runs a tire repair shop. Elections Raja has contested the Presidential elections six times, Vice-Presidential elections six times, Lok Sabha elections 32 times, Rajya Sabha elections 50 times and Parliamentary elections 73 times.
First the father lost, now the son took charge
Election Raja is not the first person to do so. Similarly, there is Parmanand Tolani of Indore, who has lost many elections in the last 30 years. His father also used to do the same. Parmanand Tolani says that after him his two daughters will also contest the elections and this will continue till someone wins.
Name changes every time before contesting elections
Whenever Prakash Kodekar of Pune goes to contest elections, he changes his name. Kodekar gets his name changed legally before every election and then fills the form. Similarly, there is Ravindra Upulla in Hyderabad, who says that if he wins the elections, he will do lie detector test every 100 days.