Opposition family scions suffer losses in Lok Sabha polls, most from NDA taste success
As BJP's saffron surge swept the country, many opposition political family scions bit the dust in the Lok Sabha elections, while most from the NDA tasted success.
Significant among those vanquished is Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, who lost Amethi, his party's political bastion, which has been with the family for 39 years since his uncle Sanjay Gandhi won the seat in 1980.
Rajiv Gandhi won the seat in a bypoll in 1981 and retained it in 1984, 1989 and 1991, but he was assassinated that year. Captain Satish Sharma, a friend of the Gandhi family, won the constituency won the seat in the 1991 bypoll and then in 1996, but the seat was wrested from him by BJP's Sanjay Singh in 1998.
A year later, Sonia Gandhi entered politics and won the Amethi seat which she retained till 2004. Rahul Gandhi won the seat in 2004, 2009 and 2014.
Four-time Congress MP Jyotiraditya Scindia lost his stronghold over Guna in Madhya Pradesh, a seat that was also held by his father, former Union minister Madhav Rao