BJP candidate Kalra wins Karnal Municipal Corporation Ward 7 byelection

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Tribune News Service

Karnal, October 3

BJP candidate Sarita Kalra won the byelections for the post of councillor of Ward 7 of the Karnal Municipal Corporation (KMC) with a margin of 3,593 votes from Naveen Kumar.

The seat of this post has gone vacant after the death of Sarita Kalra’s husband Sudarshan Kalra who won the post as an independent candidate. However, later he had joined the BJP and during the Covid-19 pandemic he died. Sarita got 3,907 votes, while Naveen Kumar received 314 votes and 32 voters opted NOTA out of 4,253 polled votes. The newly elected councillor Sarita promised to do her best for the development of the ward like her husband. CM’s Karnal representative Sanjay Bathla, BJP district president Yogendra Rana, Mayor Renu Bala Gupta, treasurer of district BJP unit Brij Gupta, former district president Jagmohan Anand, former Senior Deputy Mayor Krishan Garg, former Deputy Mayor Manoj Wadhwa and other councillors congratulated Kalra.