BJP sweeps Haryana civic polls; wins 9 of the 10 municipal corporations
Newly elected Hisar Mayor Praveen Popli along with party leaders and supporters during a victory procession on Wednesday.
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Less than six months after scoring a hat-trick of wins in Haryana Assembly elections, the ruling BJP swept the civic polls in the state on Wednesday, bagging nine of the 10 mayoral seats.
In the outgoing municipal corporations, the BJP had its mayors in seven civic bodies.
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The Congress, which was looking to turn around its electoral fortunes after suffering a defeat in the 2024 Assembly polls, failed to open its account. The party lost in Sonepat, where it had its mayor, and Rohtak, considered a stronghold of Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
Independent candidate Inderjeet Yadav was the only non-BJP nominee to win a mayoral seat. She was elected from Manesar, where municipal elections were held for the first time.
Celebrations erupted in the BJP camp after the results, with party leaders in Chandigarh and many districts distributing sweets. There were early Holi festivities as jubilant BJP members applied 'gulal' (colour) to each other.
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After the results, Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini said people have put their stamp of approval on the works and policies of the BJP government and formed a "triple-engine government" which will work at a fast pace to realise the resolve of ‘developed Haryana-developed India’.
Polls to elect mayors and ward members in seven municipal corporations -- Gurugram, Manesar, Faridabad, Hisar, Rohtak, Karnal and Yamunanagar -- were held on March 2.
The bypolls for the mayoral posts in Ambala and Sonepat and the elections for presidents and ward members in 21 municipal committees were also held that day.
For the Panipat Municipal Corporation, polling was held on March 9 to elect the mayor and 26 councillors.
According to the results available for the mayoral posts, BJP candidates registered emphatic wins in Ambala, Faridabad, Gurugram, Hisar, Karnal, Rohtak, Sonepat, Yamunanagar and Panipat defeating their nearest Congress rivals.
In Manesar, Independent candidate Inderjeet Yadav defeated her nearest BJP rival Sunder Lal by a margin of 2,293 votes to become the corporation's first-ever mayor.
Nikhil Madaan was the outgoing Sonepat mayor and a Congress leader. Ahead of the 2024 Assembly polls, he joined the BJP and won the Sonepat Assembly seat. Senior BJP leader Rajiv Jain won from Sonepat this time.
In Ambala municipal corporation, Shakti Rani Sharma was the mayor as a Haryana Janchetna Party leader. She, too, joined the BJP ahead of the assembly polls and won the Kalka Assembly seat. The other municipal corporations where polling was held had BJP mayors.
The mayoral candidates who registered victories with big margins included the BJP's Faridabad nominee Parveen Joshi who won by 3,16,852 votes and Raj Rani from Gurugram who won by over 1.79 lakh votes.
Other notable winners include BJP's Renu Bala Gupta from Karnal and Komal Saini, who won from Panipat by over 1.23 lakh votes.
In Rohtak too, which is considered a stronghold of Hooda, BJP's Ram Avtar defeated Congress' Surajmal Kiloi by a margin of 45,198 votes.
From Yamunanagar, Suman of BJP defeated Congress's Kirna Devi by a margin of 73,319 votes to become the mayor while from Ambala, BJP's Shailja Sachdeva won by a margin of 20,487 votes over her Congress rival.
Haryana minister Vipul Goel, while speaking during the ongoing budget session of the State Assembly here, said, "Our mayoral candidates have registered wins with a big majority in nine municipal corporations."
Goel said the Faridabad mayor candidate has won by the highest vote margin.
"More than 90 per cent of our councillors have also won in the polls," he said.
The results have dealt another blow to the Congress which saw workers and leaders in districts switching over to the BJP ahead of the elections. With PTI
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Making a statement in the Assembly, Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini expressed heartfelt thanks to the people of Haryana. He stated that for non-stop development, the people of the state had given a “third engine” to the urban bodies. "The results prove that the people of Haryana want development, and they have cast their vote for good governance," Saini said.
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Ward wise result of Hisar Municipal Corporation
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Ward 1: BJP’s Saroj Jain , Ward 2: BJP’s Mohit Singhal, Ward 3: BJP’s Jyoti Verma , Ward 4: BJP’s Hari Singh Saini Sankhla, Ward 5: BJP’s Bhim Mahajan , Ward 6: Independent Usha won with 1,175 votes, defeating BJP's Sumitra Khanna by 75 votes, Ward 7: BJP’s Manohar Lal Verma , Ward 8: Independent candidate Ravi Saini , Ward 9: BJP’s Sheela Devi, Ward 10: BJP’s Sakshi Bijad Sharma, Ward 11: BJP’s Naresh Grewal , Ward 12: BJP’s Jagmohan Mittal , Ward 13: BJP’s Sanjay Dalmia , Ward 14: BJP’s Suman Yadav , Ward 15: BJP’s Santosh Saini , Ward 16: BJP’s Rajender Bidlan , Ward 17: BJP’s Rajesh Arora , Ward no 18: BJP’s Gulab Singh, Ward no 19 Congress’s Satyawan Pannu and Ward no 20 BJP’s Naveen Kumar Chhotu.
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List of winning councillors from Sirsa
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• Ward 1 – Congress-backed Aarti • Ward 2 – Congress-backed Chanchal Devi • Ward 3 – Congress-backed Ramesh Mehta • Ward 4 – Sunpreet Sodhi (BJP) • Ward 5 – Jaspal Singh (BJP) • Ward 6 – Congress-backed Gopiram Saini • Ward 7 – Suman Sharma (BJP) • Ward 8 – Congress-backed Sangeeta Sachdeva • Ward 9 – Congress-backed Anita Rani • Ward 10 – Congress-backed Sanjay Kumar • Ward 11 – Rajan Sharma (BJP) • Ward 12 – Deepak Bansal (BJP) • Ward 13 – Manish Kumar (BJP) • Ward 14 – Angrej Bathla (BJP) • Ward 15 – Hemkant Sharma (BJP) • Ward 16 – Congress-backed Randhir Kumar • Ward 17 – Monika Sarraf (BJP) • Ward 18 – Congress-backed Rajinder Sardana • Ward 19 – Ruby Sethi (BJP) • Ward 20 – Sanjeev Ratusaria (BJP) • Ward 21 – Chandrika Ganeriwala (BJP) • Ward 22 – Independent Saroj Rohilla • Ward 23 – Kusum (BJP) • Ward 24 – Vikram Saini (BJP) • Ward 25 – Pooja Rani (BJP) • Ward 26 – Jasbir Singh (BJP) • Ward 27 – Manmohan Middha (BJP) • Ward 28 – Joginder Singh (BJP) • Ward 29 – Rakhi Maurya (BJP) • Ward 31 – Anu Malhotra (BJP) • Ward 32 – Asha Rani (BJP)
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Karnal
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Panipat
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Karnal: BJP candidate from Ward No 4, councillor Bhupinder Notana, wins in a close contest
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Karnal: Independent candidate Paramjeet Singh wins from ward-3
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Karnal: After fifth round of counting, BJP candidate Renu Bala Gupta leads by 9,480 votes from her nearest rival Congress candidate Manoj Wadhwa.
Panipat: BJP candidate Anita Paruthi wins
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Mahendragarh: Independent candidate Sanjay Goyal elected president of Ateli Mandi Municipal Committee. No party contested the poll on symbol here
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Panipat: BJP Mayor candidate Komal Saini leads
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Counting for Karnal Mayor
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Counting for Karnal Mayor and 18 councillors begins at Government PG College Sector-14, high security outside counting centre
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