Murli Manohar Joshi defeats coal minister Jaiswal

46Kanpur, May 16 (IANS) Veteran BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi has won from the Kanpur Lok Sabha constituency defeating coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal.

Joshi defeated Jaiswal, who was a three-time Congress MP from here, by 2,22,946 votes.

In 2009, Joshi had won from Varanasi, from where Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi fought this time.

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