India, Aug. 13 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and five term MP from Bihar, Rajiv Pratap Rudy won the Constitution Club election for the secretary (administration) post on Tuesday night after defeating fellow party leader and former Union minister from Uttar Pradesh, Sanjeev Balyan.

Announcing his win, Rudy told mediapersons on Tuesday, "I may have won by more than 100 votes... And if that is multiplied by 1,000 voters, then the number goes up to 1 lakh... This is my panel's victory".

While Rudy, who has been at the helm of the club for over two decades, received 391 of the 707 votes cast, his opponent, Balyan got 291. The club has 1,200 members of which 707 cast their votes.

Union home minister Amit Shah, BJP president JP Nadda...