Om Birla MP of Kota Lok Sabha Constituency

Kota Lok Sabha/Parliamentary constituency is among the 25 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state of Rajasthan in India. Om Birla is the Member Of Parliament from the Kota Lok Sabha constituency. The sub-urban general constituency has an approximate total scheduled caste population of 20.39%. And the scheduled tribe population is 12.74%. The approximate literacy level of Kota is 73.1%. In the 2019 parliamentary constitution, the total number of electors and voter turnout are counted as a percentage.

In 2019, Om Birla, the candidate of the Bhartiya Janata party, won on the verge of 2,79,677 votes. He defeated Ramnarain Meena of the Indian National Congress. Om Birla gained 8,00,051 votes. Kota constituency election falls under the area of Rajasthan. Sangod, Bundi, Keshoraipatan (SC), Ladpura, Ramganj Mandi, Pipalda, Kota North, and Kota South are the assembly constituencies considered under the Kota parliamentary constituency.

In the 2014 parliamentary constituency election, BJP won by defeating the Indian National Congress party on the verge of 2,00,782 votes which was 17.38% of the total number of votes polled in the constituency. There was a total number of 12 contestants in 2014.

In 2009, Ijayaraj Singh of the Indian National Congress won victoriously by defeating the BJP candidate on the verge of 83,093 votes which is 12.73% total votes polled. There was a total number of 12 contestants in 2009.

Previous election stats of Om Birla Lok Sabha Constituency

The above table shows the previous winner of the parliamentary constituency. Om Birla of BJP achieved by winning 8,00,051 votes. He defeated Ramnaraian Meena of the Indian National Congress, who secured 5,20,374 votes. The majority was found to be 2,79,677, and turn out to be 13,67,928 votes.

Om Birla: Voice of the Kota Lok Sabha constituency

Om Birla, born on November 23, 1962, is a social worker, agriculturalist and, importantly, an Indian politician. He is the 17th and current speaker of Lok Sabha. He worked for the Kota Bundi constituency of Rajasthan. He is associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party. Before parliament, he was a three-time elected person to the assembly of Rajasthan. He took birth to parents named Shrikrishna Birla and Shakuntala Devi in a Marwari Hindu Maheshwari family.

Om Birla pursued his Master’s Degree from the Government Commerce college, Kota. And also from Maharshi Dayanand University, Ajmer. His spouse’s name is Amita Birla. They got married in 1991. They are the parents of two daughters, Akanksha and Anjali.

In 2003, Birla won his first assembly elections contesting from South Kota. He defeated Congress candidate Dhariwal on the verge of 10,101 votes. Before becoming a member of parliament, he won his third assembly election, which was against Pankaj Mehta of Congress, which was close to 50,000 votes in 2013. During his tenure from 2003-2008, he was the Parliamentary Secretary of the Rajasthan government.

Om Birla was elected as the 16th and 17th parliamentary constituency for the Kota constituency. He was a member of the Standing Committee on Energy and a Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in the 16th Lok Sabha.

Birla for the post of Lok Sabha astonished many, including MPs from the treasury bench.

On June 19, 2019, Birla was elected as the speaker of the 17th Lok Sabha.

When was the first Parliamentary Election held in Kota?

The first election held in Kota Lok Sabha was in 1952. The candidate was Nemi Chandra Kasliwal of the Indian National Congress. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the parliament of India, from Kota, Rajasthan.

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