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The verdict of the people of India is gradually being revealed as counting enters its 12th hour. 

 

While the outcomes are yet to be announced in the majority of seats counting trends till now show some big names biting the dust in this general elections.

 

BJP's Smriti Irani, who was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2019 after she soundly defeated Rahul Gandhi, is looking at a poll loss.

 

As of 5 pm, Smriti Irani was trailing by over 1.4 lakh votes behind Congress's Kishori Lal Sharma.

 

The other BJP name that is looking at likely defeat is BJP's K Annamalai. Engineer-turned-IPS officer K Annamalai was fielded by BJP from Coimbatore seat as the party hoped to make electoral gains in Tamil Nadu. 

 

However, counting trends showed Annamalai, who made his poll debut this election, trailing by over 51,000 votes behind DMK candidate Ganapthy Rajkumar P.

 

Meanwhile, Congress leader Vikramaditya Singh lost to Kangana Ranaut, who also made her debut on the BJP ticket this poll season. 

 

The vote margin was over 74,000 in this Himachal seat. Vikramaditya Singh is the son of six-time Himachal chief minister late Virbhadra Singh and sitting MP Pratibha Singh.

 

In a shocker, Jammu and Kashmir National Conference leader Omar Abdullah conceded defeat to Independent candidate Abdul Rashid Sheikh. 

 

Omar Abdullah, former chief minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, was trailing by over 2 lakh votes.

 

Mehbooba Mufti is another former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister who showed poor poll performance. 

 

As of 5.30 pm, Mufti was trailing behind Jammu and Kashmir National Conference leader Man Altaf Ahmad by a margin of over 2.7 lakh votes.

 

Meanwhile, the fight for Thiruvananthapuram showed all the promises of being a high-stake battle and it delivered.
 
Congress's Shashi Tharoor was up against BJP leader Rajeev Chandrasekhar. 

 

The early trends showed Chandrasekhar leading the poll race, before Tharoor was able to race past and win the Kerala seat by over 16,000 votes.

 

BJP's K Surendran suffered a massive setback in Wayanad constituency. Contesting against Congress's Rahul Gandhi and Communist Party of India candidate Annie Raja, Surendran came in a distant third in the poll race. 

 

Rahul Gandhi, who is leading on the seat, secured over 6.4 lakh votes, while K Surendran got 1.41 lakh votes.