The civic physique elections come a 12 months after Manohar Lal Khattar was re-elected. (File)
Chandigarh/ New Delhi:
Haryana’s ruling BJP-JJP suffered a setback in municipal elections on Wednesday, dropping mayoral races in Sonipat and Ambala, in addition to three of 5 different civic physique polls.
Two of these three defeats had been in Hisar’s Ukalana and Rewari’s Dharuhera – each of that are seen as strongholds of Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala’s Jannayak Janata Social gathering.
The defeats come a 12 months after the BJP-JJP got here to energy and amid protests over three agriculture legal guidelines handed by the BJP on the centre in September- protests fueled, partially, by farmers from the state.
Farmers in Ambala, from which district Dwelling Minister Anil Vij is an MLA and a BJP chief is the MP, celebrated the ruling get together’s defeat with gusto, sharing sweets, and breaking into track and dance.
The Haryana Janachetana Social gathering’s Shakti Rani Sharma is about to be the mayor there, after profitable by greater than 800 votes. Rani Sharma is the spouse of get together chief Venod Sharma, an ex-Congress chief and former union minister. Their son, Manu Sharma, was convicted within the Jessica Lal homicide case.
In Sonipat the Congress’ Lalit Batra received by almost 14,000 votes. Social gathering chief Srivatsa tweeted: “Congress has received Sonipat mayoral elections by an enormous margin… Sonipat is true subsequent to Singhu border (which) is the epicentre of farmer agitation in Haryana.”
The BJP did win the Panchkula mayoral race, with Kulbushan Goyal profitable by round 2,000 votes.
The get together did, nonetheless, make up some floor in seven municipal physique elections.
In Ambala the BJP received eight of 20 seats, with the Janachetana Social gathering claiming seven, the Congress three and the Haryana Democratic Entrance getting two.
In Sonipat the BJP received 10 wards and the Congress 9, with the remaining seat going to an impartial candidate.
In Panchkula the BJP and Congress received 9 and 7 seats, respectively, with Deputy Chief Minister Chautala’s JJP claiming two. And the Rewari Municipal Council Chairperson’s seat was bagged by the get together’s Poonam Yadav by 2,087 votes.
However the BJP-JJP duo did not to win three different municipal committees – Dharuhera, Sampla and Uklana, with impartial candidates profitable in all three.
The farmers’ agitation had put Dushyant Chautala in a bind as a result of farmers are his key voter base. Mr Chautala, who’s the grandson of farmer chief and former Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, earlier mentioned he would give up if unable to make sure MSP – a key demand of protesting farmers.
Final week he confronted a boycott in his residence constituency – Jind’s Uchana Kalan – after irate villagers dug up a brief helipad forward of a scheduled public occasion.
A number of different Haryana villages have known as for an entire boycott of all members of the ruling coalition, amid widespread anger over the centre’s contentious farm legal guidelines.
With enter from PTI
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