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State:	Madhya Pradesh
Constituency:	Bilaspur (SC)
Total Votes Polled:	557347
Winner: BJP	Punnulal Mohle	226054
Runner Up: INC	Khelan Ram	191174
Margin: 34880 (6.47%)

One of the seats where the sitting Congress MP was not renominated, and this proved costly since K R Jangade had defeated the BJP in 1991. The saffron brigade then took back the seat by a margin of 35,000 votes, courtesy Punnulal Mohle.