BJP, Congress, AAP announce candidates for Panchkula Municipal Corporation poll
Polling will be held on May 10; counting on May 13
The BJP on Thursday announced the list of candidates for the 20 wards for the Panchkula Municipal Corporation elections scheduled for May 10.
Paramjit Kaur (Ward 1), Paramjit Kaur (Ward 2), Suresh Verma (Ward 3), Bharat Hetaishi (Ward 4), Jai Kaushik (Ward 5), Parth Gupta (Ward 6), Jyoti Prasad (Ward 7), Rajkumar Jain (Ward 8), Harender Malik (Ward 9), Shekhar Pandey (Ward 10), Anuradha Puri (Ward 11), Rakesh Jagota (Ward 12), Deepak Garg (Ward 13), Rakesh Goyal (Ward 14), Priyanka (Ward 15), Nirmala Devi (Ward 16), Sudesh Birla (Ward 17), Pooja Devi (Ward 18), Manisha Rani (Ward 19), and Gautam Rana (Ward 20) are the party candidates.
The Haryana Congress on Wednesday evening named 17 candidates.
Payal Sodhi (Ward 1), Rajnish Singla (Ward 3), Rajiv Chaudhary (Ward 4), Vijay Sharma (Ward 5), Darshan Lal (Ward 6), Pankaj Balmiki (Ward 7), Usha Rani (Ward 8), Surinder Singh (Ward 9), Baljit Singh (Ward 10), Anju (Ward 11), Jagjit Sohi (Ward 12), Akshaydeep Chaudhary (Ward 13), Saraswati Devi (Ward 15), Mukesh Sirswal (Ward 17), Amandeep Kaur (Ward 18), Nazma (Ward 19), and Vikas Rana (Ward 20) are the Congress candidates for the Municipal Corporation elections.
Three candidates for Ward 2, Ward 14 and Ward 16 have been kept pending.
Sudha Bhardwaj (Congress) and Sham Lal Bansal (BJP) are the mayoral candidates. The Mayor’s post is unreserved while two wards have been reserved for Scheduled Caste candidates, one for Scheduled Caste (women), one for BC-A (women), one for BC-B (women), four for women and 11 are unreserved.
The AAP also declared a list of 11 candidates -- Amrit Kaur (Ward 1), Vishal Bhateja (Ward 5), Rakesh Malik (Ward 7), Vinod Kumar (Ward 8), Manjesh Kumar (Ward 10), Sanjeev Kumar (Ward 12), Vishal Bhardwaj (Ward 13), Sumit Kumar (Ward 14), Pinky (Ward 15), Roshni Devi (Ward 16), and Ashok Kumar (Ward 17) -- on Wednesday evening.
A total of 2,07,379 voters -- 1,08,927 male, 98,447 female, and five others -- are eligible to vote at 204 polling stations in the 20 wards.
Key dates
April 21-25: Nomination filing
April 27: Scrutiny of nominations
April 28: Withdrawal of candidates
May 10: Polling
May 12: Repolling (if necessary)
May 13: Counting of votes
