BJP ahead as 76% cast votes in Una

Our Correspondent

UNA, JANUARY 10

Voting for elections to the six Urban Local Bodies in Una district, which include the Municipal Committees of Una, Mehatpur-Basdehra and Santoshgarh and Nagar Panchayats of Tahliwal, Daulatpur Chowk and Gagret went off peacefully today with a total of 76.07 per cent voters exercising their franchise.

Deputy Commissioner Raghav Sharma informed that a maximum voter turnout of 82.59 per cent was witnessed at Tahliwal, followed by 78.86 per cent at Mehatpur-Basdehra, 77.06 per cent at Gagret, 77.05 per cent at Santoshgarh, 73.32 per cent at Una and 72.12 per cent at Daulatpur Chowk.

The BJP has claimed victories in Mehatpur and Tahliwal urban bodies where results of all wards have been received. In all, 25,538 out of a total 34,821 voters exercised their franchise at six urban bodies in Una district, which includes 10 Covid positive and 13 home quarantined persons, who voted after 4 pm at the end of the poll process.

The list of the winning candidates with votes cast in their favour in Municipal Committee Mehatpur-Basdehra having nine wards is Balram Chandel (134 votes) from Ward-1, Som Nath (409 votes) from Ward-2, Banwari Lal (319 votes) from ward-3, Ritu Bala (262 votes) from Ward-4, Rajinder Kaur (471 votes) from Ward-5, Vipin Rana (393 votes) from ward-6, Harpreet Kaur (262 votes) from Ward-7, Anju Devi (306 votes) from ward-8 and Ajay Soni from ward-9

In Tahliwal Nagar Panchayat, the winners from the seven wards are Sushma Kumari (145 votes) from Ward-1, Poonam Devi (196 votes) from ward-2, Gurnam Singh (160 votes) from Ward 3, Sushma Devi (173 votes) from Ward-4, Prakash Chand (203 votes) from Ward 5, Raj Kumari (190 votes) from Ward-6 and Raj Kumar from ward-7.

Counting of votes in the remaining municipal bodies was still underway, while only three winning candidates from Santoshgarh Municipal Committee having a total of nine wards could be confirmed.