RAKESH
Also on ballots as Rakesh
IND·SP·AAP·BSP·SBSP·BMUP·GAAP·RARS·PECP·JDU·NPEP·NNP·RLM·SJPR·M·JD·HJCBL·NYP·BRVP·NCP·BRPP·RPD·RPI·SHS·BJP·UPRP·KVP·DDP·BKD·RVD·JP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “RAKESH” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 8 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 40-year span across 138 contests, 31 different parties — patterns a single career can’t produce. Read each block below as its own thread, and treat the totals as counts for the name, not for a person.
Every contest
Grouped by state and by Lok Sabha — spelling variants are merged, and, without a candidate id, so are different people who share this name.