Jammu, June 4 (Reporter) Celebrations were held in the Bharatiya Janata Party's party office after both its candidates Dr Jitendra Singh and Jugal Kishore Sharma retained their Lok Sabha seats -- Udhampur and Jammu -- for the third consecutive term. Dr Jitendra Singh won from the Udhampur Parliamentary Constituency by defeating his nearest rival (by 1,24,373 votes) from the Congress party Choudhary Lal Singh, who recently made a ‘ghar-wapsi’ to the Congress party fold. BJP candidate from Jammu-Reasi Parliamentary Constituency, Jugal Kishore Sharma once again after 2019, defeated his close contender Raman Bhalla from the Congress party (by 1,35,498 votes). Dr Singh, who took premature retirement as a professor of endocrinology in the Government Medical College, Jammu, in 2008, was appointed spokesperson of the Shri Amarnathji Sangharsh Samiti and became the ‘voice of Jammu’ during the famous Amarnath Land Row. He joined the BJP in 2012 as a Chief Spokesperson. In 2014, Dr Jitendra Singh defeated the former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, a Congress candidate, with a margin of 62,000 votes and in 2019 he won the Udhampur-Kathua-Doda Lok Sabha seat by defeating his nearest rival Congress candidate Vikramaditya Singh by a margin of 3.57 lakh votes. However, BJP candidate Jugal Kishore Sharma, in 2014 had won the Jammu seat with a victory margin of 2.57 lakh votes against Congress’ Madan Lal Sharma, and in 2019, he had defeated the Congress candidate Raman Bhalla with a margin of 3,02,875 votes. The Udhampur parliamentary constituency recorded a 68.23 per cent voter turnout on April 19, with 16,23,195 eligible voters casting their ballots. Over 11.08 lakh votes determined the fate of 12 candidates, including Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh and two-time MP Choudhary Lal Singh of the Congress. Moreover, over 12.86 lakh votes (72.22 per cent) were counted in the Jammu constituency, where BJP’s sitting MP Jugal Kishore Sharma won a third consecutive victory against Raman Bhalla, the working president of the J&K Congress unit, among 22 other candidates...////...