Gujarat candidate contesting for sarpanch gets only 1 vote: his own

Tribune Web Desk

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Chandigarh, December 22

On one seat, in panchayats election in Gujarat, a candidate received only one vote, suggesting that he could not manage to get the votes of even his family members.

Santosh Halpati was in fray for the post of Sarpanch in Chharwala village of Vapi district.

Halpati broke down near the counting centre on finding that he just got one vote, which was his own.  He was heartbroken that not even his wife had voted for him. The State Election Commission declared the results of 6,481 out of 8,686 village panchayats in Gujarat on Tuesday. Currency notes wrapped in a ballot paper were recovered from a ballot box in Vadodara district.

A total of 27,200 candidates are in the fray for sarpanch’s posts and 1,19,998 are in the fray for members’ posts in over 47,000 panchayat wards. With inputs from PTI