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State:	Haryana
Constituency:	Sirsa (SC)
Total Votes Polled:	847173
Winner: INC	Selja	275459
Runner Up: SAP	Sushil Kumar	260312
Margin: 15147 (1.84%)

Remember Selja, the deputy minister in the Rajiv Gandhi council of ministers? She first won from here in 1991, and retained the seat in the 1996 election as well. In fact, so strong is the Congress here that the BJP was relegated to the third position here, winning just 23.77 % of the votes.