CHANDIGARH: In another humiliating defeat for the Haryana government. BJP-JJP combine harvester, lost mayor polls in two municipal corporations but he won in a civic body on Wednesday.
The opposition Congress won the office of mayor by the Sonepat Municipal Corporation, while the BJP won the position in Municipal Corporation of Panchkula.
In the Ambala Municipal Corporation, rebel Congress Venod SharmaHaryana Jan Chetna won the match.
BJP’s Kulbhushan Goyal he won the mayoral election of Panchkula by defeating Upinder Kaur Ahluwalia from Congress by a margin of 2,057 votes. Goyal got 49,860 votes, while Ahluwalia got 47,803 votes.
In Ambala, Shakti Rani Sharma of the Haryana Jan Chetna Party defeated Vandana Sharma of the BJP by a margin of more than 7,000 votes.
Nikhil Madaan from Congress defeated the BJP candidate, Lalit Batra, by a margin of 13,818 votes in Sonepat for the mayoral seat.
However, in the Rewari City Council, the BJP won the office of President. Poonam Yadav of BJP defeated Independent Upma Yadav by 2,087 votes. Congress was third in this seat.
In the Uklana municipal committee election, the independent candidate Sushil Sahu defeated the BJP Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) candidate Mahender Soni for the post of president.
At Sampla, the independent candidate Pooja, who was backed by former prime minister and congressional leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda, defeated the BJP candidate for the position of president.
In the Dharuhera Municipal Committee election in the Rewari district, independent candidate Kanwar Singh became president by defeating the BJP’s closest rival and candidate, Sandeep Bohra, by 632 votes.
Singh got 3,048 votes, while Bohra got 2,416 votes and JJP’s Man Singh got 1,657 votes.
Almost 60 percent of electoral participation was registered in the elections to the municipal organs on Sunday.
The BJP had faced candidates for the position of mayor in all three municipal corporation seats, in addition to the candidate for president for the Rewari municipal council.
He also contested the district elections, but the main opposition Congress only contested the mayoral elections of the three corporations and the election of president in the Rewari municipal council.
The JJP challenged the election of the president in the Dharuhera and Uklana municipal committees.
The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) had boycotted the municipal ballot boxes in protest at the alleged atrocities committed against farmers by the Center.
This has been the second defeat for the BJP-JJP alliance since they came to power in the state in October 2019.
Last month, Indu Congress candidate Raj Narwal defeated his closest rival and BJP nominee Yogeshwar Dutt for the Baroda Assembly seat by a margin of more than 10,000 votes.
Encouraged by the party’s victory in the Sonepat Municipal Corporation, Congress leader Bhupinder Hooda told the media that after Baroda’s election, the people of Sonepat have given an “adequate response” to the coalition government in the municipal elections. .
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