Solan, January 19
State BJP president Suresh Kashyap’s sister Shyama Pundir was elected president of the Nahan municipal committee (MC) and Avinash Gupta was elected vice-president in Nahan today.
Eight BJP-supported members and five Congress-supported members participated in the elections. Though the BJP had the majority votes, the Congress put up a token contest where Shruti Chauhan and Yogesh Gupta were, respectively, fielded as president and vice-president candidates. The BJP-supported candidates secured eight votes each while the Congress-backed persons lagged behind with a mere five votes.
Since the post of president was reserved for a scheduled caste woman, Pundir was the obvious choice as she was the lone woman from this community among the BJP-supported candidates who had won. — TNS
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