December 11, 2020 1:11:52 am
Beawar: Women show their fingers marked with indelible ink after casting their vote at a polling station during the elections of Panchayat Samiti and Zila Parishad (PTI)
Zila Parishad members of the ruling Congress and the BJP Opposition joined forces on Thursday to defeat a Zila Pramukh candidate supported by the Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP) in Dungarpur, Rajasthan.
In recent elections, the BTP-backed independents won 13 of 27 seats in Dungarpur Zila Parishad. The BJP and Congress won 8 and 6 seats, respectively. While the 13 independents backed by the BTP voted for their candidate Parwati Doda, members of the BJP and Congress Zila Parishad voted for Surya Ahari, a BJP member who ran as an independent, helping her reach the majority mark. of 14.
Ahari, 40, is a tribe and has studied up to Class XII. She is a former pradhan of Galiyakot panchayat samiti of Dungarpur. Her husband Balveer said he is not receiving calls now.
BTP founder Chhotubhai Vasava tweeted: “BTP nek hai isiliye Congress BJP ek hai (BTP is good, so BJP and Congress are one).” He also wished Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on his “new alliance”.
The party has two MLAs, both from Dungarpur, who support the Gehlot government.
Meanwhile, after the good show in the Zila Pramukh member elections earlier this week, on Thursday the BJP elected Zila Pramukhs to 12 Zila Parishads and Congress had to deal with five Zila Pramukhs.
In results declared Tuesday, out of 636 zila parishad member seats in 21 districts, the BJP won 353 and Congress won 252. In Jhalawar, the BJP won 19 of Zila Parishad’s 27 seats, well above the Majority mark, but voting for her post Zila Pramukh will take place on Friday because of re-rolling into a booth.
Apart from Dungarpur, the Independents won in Ajmer and Bundi. In Ajmer, despite having a clear majority, the BJP had to suffer a shock when its rebel Sushil Kanwar defeated the BJP candidate by 14 votes, with the help of Congress.
Also in Bundi, Congress did not present its own candidate and instead supported Chandravati, a BJP rebel who defeated the BJP candidate by a three-vote margin.
In terms of panchayat samiti pradhan seats, out of 4,371 panchayat samiti seats, the BJP won 1,989 compared to 1,850 for Congress. However, on Thursday Congress managed to elect 97 pradhans, just one less than the 98 of the BJP. The independents won 23, the Rashtriya Loktantrik Party won 2, and the CPM won one.
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