BJP finals candidates for all 26 wards of Panipat MC, fields 21 new faces

The BJP has once again taken a step ahead of other opposition parties by releasing the list of all 26 candidates for the upcoming civic polls.

The BJP has fielded mostly new faces in the political battle.

The BJP dropped the names of 21 former councillors from the list and repeated only 5 former councillors this time. Two days after the announcement of Komal Saini as its mayoral candidate, the BJP announced the names of candidates for all 26 wards on Sunday.

As per the list available, the BJP trusted five former municipal councillors (MCs) – Anita Paruthi from ward 1, Anil Bajaj from ward 3, Ashok Kataria from ward 7, Sanjeev Dahiya from ward 21 and Manjeet Kaur of ward 25. However, BJP’s district president Dushyant Bhatt succeeded in getting a ticket for his wife Kusum Bhatt from ward 26.

Dushyant Bhatt was a former Senior Deputy Mayor and councillor from ward 25. The party announced Kajal Sharma from ward 2, who is the wife of Anil Sharma, who is the PA to Education Minister Mahipal Dhanda. Other candidates include Pankaj Khusrija from ward 4, Jaideep Arora from ward 5, Komal Panchal from ward 6, Sudesh Kashyap from ward 8, Nawal Jindal from ward 9, Kamal Arora from ward 10, Anjana Gurjar from ward 11, Ashwani from ward 12, Sarvesh Sharma from ward 13, Ajit Kumar from ward 14, Amit Narang from ward 15, Annu Sharma from ward 16, Rajni Garg from ward 17, Kuldeep Kumar Swami from ward 18, Neha Sharma from ward 19, Tarun Gandhi (a relative of former MP Sanjay Bhatia) from ward 20, Rocky Gahlot from ward 22, traders' leader Anil Madaan from ward 23, Sanchi from ward 24.

Dushyant Bhatt, BJP’s district president said all the candidates were announced on Sunday. The decision was taken by the high command, he said. He further said that the BJP would win its mayoral election as well as in all 26 wards in the city, and is set to form a triple engine government.

The manifesto committee has been constituted under the chairmanship of former councillor Ravinder Bhatia. Apart from it, ward incharges have been already appointed and all the party leaders and party workers have started working to win the MC polls, he said.