Haryana Panchayat Polls: BJP secures 22 seats, AAP finishes second with 15

Chandigarh: On Sunday, the results of the Haryana Panchayat elections were announced, and multiple zila parishad seats in the state went to the candidates of the BJP, AAP, and INLD. According to a senior poll official, all elected candidates’ names will be duly issued in the Haryana state government gazette before 30 November. According to a party leader, the ruling BJP won 22 of the 102 zila parishad seats it ran for in seven districts, including Ambala, Yamunanagar, and Gurugram. The BJP, however, suffered a setback in Panchkula, where it lost 10 zila parishad seats. The Aam Aadmi party was successful in building itself in the panchayat polls, securing 15 seats in zila parishads in districts like Sirsa, Ambala, Yamunanagar, and Jind. AAP candidates ran for about 100 zila parishad seats. In the election, the Indian National Lok Dal, which ran for 72 zila parishad seats, won 14 of them. The Congress did not contest the panchayat polls on its party symbol. The political parties also asserted that the candidates they supported won from a number of zila parishad seats. A number of Independent candidates won in the zila parishad elections, affecting political parties. Karan Chautala, a leader for the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) and son of Ellenabad legislator Abhay Chautala, won by more than 600 votes in Sirsa’s ward number 6 of the zila parishad. Additionally, JJP MLA from Shahbad Ramkaran Kala’s son Kanwarpal won in the first ward of that municipality. The wife of Kurukshetra BJP MP Nayab Singh Saini, who was defeated by an Independent from ward number 4 of Ambala zila parishad, was one among the prominent losers. Three phases of voting were used to elect 143 panchayat samitis and 22 zila parishads. Haryana has 22 zila parishads comprising 411 members. The 22 zila parishad leaders will be chosen by each of the members. The state has 143 panchayat samitis, comprising 3,081 members who will elect its own presidents. At the counting centres, there were strict security measures in place when voting for the panchayat samiti and zila parishad polls began at 8 am. The state election commission’s dashboard, which displayed the results of the polls, experienced a technical issue in the afternoon. After the poll result, Haryana BJP chief O P Dhankar said BJP candidates and party-backed nominees were elected at most places for zila parishads and panchayat samitis. He also congratulated the winners in the polls. AAP supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal congratulated his party candidates for their victories in zila parishad polls. In a tweet, Kejriwal asked them to work for people with full dedication. AAP MP and party’s Haryana incharge Sushil Gupta said that the AAP won 15 seats of zila parishads. With the poll result, it has become clear that the coming time in the state belongs to the Aam Aadmi Party, he claimed. Meanwhile, Haryana State Election Commissioner Dhanpat Singh said out of 3,081 members of 143 panchayat samitis in the state, 117 had been already unanimously elected. For the remaining posts of 2,964 members, 11,888 candidates had contested the election. He said elections were held for 411 members of 22 zila parishads and as many as 3,072 candidates contested for these posts. Singh said the counting of votes for the election of 411 members of zila parishads and the remaining 2,964 members of panchayat samitis in 143 blocks for all 22 districts was completed peacefully. He said the notification of the names of all the elected candidates will be duly issued in the Haryana state government gazette before 30 November. In the first phase, the polling for zila parishads and panchayat samities were held on 30 October in nine districts Bhiwani, Jhajjar, Jind, Kaithal, Mahendragarh, Nuh, Panchkula, Panipat and Yamunanagar while polling for panches and sarpanches were held on 2 November. In the second phase, voting for the election of panchayat samitis members and zila parishads were held on 9 November in Ambala, Charkhi Dadri, Gurugram, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Rewari, Rohtak, Sirsa and Sonipat, while the poll for panches and sarpanches in Gram Panchayats of these districts was held on 12 November. In the third and final phase, voting for panchayat samitis and zila parishads in the remaining districts was held on 22 November and the election of panches and sarpanches in these districts were held on 25 November. The results of elections for panches and sarpanches were declared immediately after the polling in each phase. Read all the Latest News , Trending News , Cricket News , Bollywood News , India News and Entertainment News here. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.