Elections 2014: Salman Khurshid, Medha Patkar, Yogendra Yadav among prominent faces to lose deposit

New Delhi Many prominent leaders from Congress and Aam Aadmi Party including Salman Khurshid Mani Shankar Aiyar Raj Babbar Kumar Vishwas and Shazia Ilmi could not manage to win enough votes to save their depositsAAPs vociferous leader Kumar Vishwas who fought against Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi and BJPs Smriti Irani in Amethi ended at fourth position winning just 25527 votes accounting for about 3 per cent of over 874 lakh total votes polledFor Lok Sabha elections general category candidates are required to deposit Rs 25000 and to get this amount refunded one should get at least onesixth or 1666 per cent of the total valid votes polled in the constituencyScheduled caste and tribes candidate are required to deposit only half of the amountPolitical scientist and AAPs candidate from Gurgaon Yogendra Yadav too lost depositFrom leftSalman Khurshid Raj Babbar Nagma and Kumar VishwasIlmi stood at fifth position in Ghaziabad against BJP candidate and former army chief V K Singh by managing 89147 which was 6 per cent of total votes polledEven Congress candidate from the constituency Babbar managed to get 14 per cent of total votes polled and lost his depositCongress leader and former External Affairs Minister Khurshid also lost his deposit as he could win only about 10 per cent of total votesAjay Rai who was Congress candidate in the highprofile fight in Varanasi against BJPs Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal managed to get about 7 per cent votesOther prominent face of Congress in Uttar Pradesh who lost deposits include former Minister of State for Human Resource Jitin Prasada cricketer Mohd Kaif and actors Nagma and Ravi KishanA random check of several constituencies showed more voters preferred None of The Above NOTA option over AAP candidatesAiyar who contested from Mayiladuthurai seat polled less than 6 per cent votesFormer Finance Minister P Chidambarams son and debutant Karti P Chidambaram stood fourth after garnering about 10 per cent of total votes and could not save his depositIn Delhi where BJP swept all 7 seats Congress candidates lost deposit in four constituencies Mahabal Mishra from Delhi West Krishna Tirath from Delhi North West Jai Prakash Agarwal from Delhi North East and Ramesh Kumar from South DelhiAAP candidates were able to give some fight in Delhi and Punjab but lost deposits at most of the seats in other statesAdarsh Shastri grandson of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri could not save his deposit in Allahabad He had left his job in technology major Apple to join AAPThe partys candidate in Nilgiris M T Rani against former telecom minister and 2G scam accused A Raja lost his deposit and got only 12525 votes compared to 46559 NOTA votes Raja lost to AIADMK candidate C GoplakrishnanSocial activists and AAP candidates Medha Patkar and Anjali Damania lost deposits in Maharashtra so did bankerturnedpolitician Meera Sanyal of AAPSome prominent faces from Bollywood who lost their deposit include producer and actor Mahesh Manjrekar who contested on Maharashtra Navnirman Sena MNS ticket from North West Mumbai and actor Javed Jafri who was the AAP candidate from Lucknow