NOIDA: Union defence minister Rajnath Singh’s son Pankaj Singh won the Noida assembly seat for the BJP again, defeating his nearest rival Samajwadi Party’s Sunil Choudhury by a margin of over 1.81 lakh votes — the second highest victory margin in the state polls. Noida voters said they voted for women safety, law and order and better infrastructure.
Singh polled over 2.44 lakh votes, while Choudhury got 62,806 votes. Bahujan Samaj Party’s (BSP) Kripa Ram Sharma came a distant third getting 16,292 votes while Congress’s Pankhuri Pathak bagged 13,494 votes.