The Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) on Sunday swept the city native physique elections in Uttarakhand by successful 10 out of 11 mayoral seats to emerge because the dominant get together within the municipal councils and nagar panchayats.
Whereas the BJP gained 10 mayoral seats, the remaining one was bagged by an Impartial candidate, State Election Commissioner Sushil Kumar mentioned. Nevertheless, the counting which started on Saturday continues to be underway and the outcomes of all of the 100 city native our bodies which went to the polls on January 23 are more likely to be out by late afternoon, Kumar added.
On Thursday, polling was held for 11 municipal firms, 43 municipal councils, and 46 nagar panchayats utilizing poll. The voter turnout was recorded at 65.4 per cent. Within the municipal elections, a complete of 5,405 candidates have been within the fray. 72 ran for 11 mayoral posts 445 for municipal council chairperson and 4,888 for municipal councillors and members.
The mayoral seats gained by the BJP included Dehradun (Saurabh Thapliyal), Rishikesh (Shambhu Paswan), Kashipur (Dipak Bali), Haridwar (Kiran Jaisdal), Roorkee (Anita Devi), Kotdwar (Shailendra Rawat), Rudrapur (Vikas Sharma), Almora (Ajay Verma), Pithoragarh (Kalpana Devlal), and Haldwani (Gajraj Bisht).
In Pauri district’s Srinagar, Arti Bhandari gained the mayoral seat as an Impartial, Kumar mentioned. Surprisingly, Congress didn’t open its account within the polls. It had gained two mayoral seats within the final city native physique polls held in 2018.
(With PTI Inputs)