Sonipat Mayrol By-Polls: BJP Baggage Municipal Company Chairperson Seat By Over 32,000 Votes | India Information

Sonipat Mayrol By-Polls: The Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) secured a victory within the Sonipat Mayrol polls by-election on Wednesday, March 12 defeating the Congress by 34,749 votes. Within the bypolls for the Mayor’s put up in Sonipat Muniicpal Corporrtation, BJP’s Rajiv Jain defeated Congress’ Kamal Dewan. The counting of votes was held within the Sonipat Municipal Company Mayrol bypolls on Wednesday after which the outcomes had been declared.

The counting of votes within the Haryana municipal elections are being held at the moment, and the outcomes throughout a number of districts, together with Gurugram, Panipat, Sonipat, and Karnal, can be introduced after the counting ends. The elections for the company had been held on March 2. 

The principle opposition Congress in Haryana is ready to be worn out within the civic polls as early leads within the underway counting of ballots indicated that the state ruling BJP is main on 9 out of 10 posts of mayor. In a single municipal company, an unbiased, a BJP insurgent, is main. The outcomes can be the primary electoral check for the Congress and the BJP after the latter received the Meeting polls in Haryana in October, 2024, for the file third consecutive time period.

The Congress has by no means contested the municipal polls on its image, besides within the mayoral elections of three municipal companies in December 2020. Within the mayor’s election within the industrial city of Manesar, unbiased candidate Inderjit Yadav is main by 1,638 votes within the first spherical. He has secured 4,809 votes, whereas BJP’s Sunder Lal received 3,171 votes. One other unbiased candidate, Vijay Singh, polled 3,133 votes. The Congress candidate, Neeraj Yadav, received simply 273 votes.

The elections for seven municipal companies—Gurugram, Manesar, Faridabad, Hisar, Rohtak, Karnal, and Yamunanagar—had been held on March 2, whereas the voting for the Panipat municipal company was held individually on March 9. Bypolls for the posts of mayor in Ambala and Sonipat and the election of the presidents and ward members in 21 municipal committees had been additionally held on March 2.

Votes are additionally being counted for municipal councils in Ambala Sadar, Pataudi-Jatauli Mandi, Thanesar, Sirsa, Sohna (by-election), and 21 different municipal councils. By-elections for the put up of president within the Assandh and Ismailabad municipal councils had been additionally held.

Forty-six % of the greater than 51 lakh eligible voters exercised their franchise for civic physique polls on March 2. A complete of 26 ward members have already been elected unopposed. Amongst them, Kuldeep Singh (Faridabad), Vikas Yadav (Gurugram), Sankalp Bhandari and Sanjeev Kumar Mehta (Karnal), and Bhavna (Yamunanagar) secured unopposed wins from their respective wards in municipal companies.

(With IANS Inputs)