Congress sweeps Shimla Municipal Corporation polls with 24 wards
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SHIMLA: The ruling Congress on Thursday swept the Shimla Municipal Corporation (SMC) polls with two-third majority by profitable 24 wards out of entire 34, wresting the distinguished civic physique from the BJP.
The BJP captured 9 wards whereas the CPI-M managed to win just one ward, Shimla Deputy Commissioner Aditya Negi talked about.
Both the BJP and the Congress had fielded 34 candidates each and the CPI-M had put up 4 candidates.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which fielded 21 candidates, drew a clear inside the SMC polls held on Tuesday.
All the 9 independents have been moreover defeated.
A whole of 102 contestants have been inside the fray.
The Congress had acquired the assembly polls in December 2022 profitable 40 out of 68 seats.
In the 2017 SMC elections, the BJP had wrested the civic physique from the Congress for the first time in 32 years, profitable 17 wards.
The Congress had acquired 12 wards, the CPI-M one and the rest 4 wards have been captured by neutral candidates.
The Congress had profit inside the civic polls as assembly constituencies of two cabinet ministers, Aniruddh Singh (Kasumpti) and Vikramaditya Singh (Shimla Rural), and the constituency of Congress MLA Harish Janartha (Shimla Urban) constituted the SMC house.
The implementation of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) was a major factor in favour of the Congress as a result of the SMC has the easiest number of authorities workers.
Earlier, the counting of votes for 34 wards of the SMC commenced at 10 am and it was completed in 5 phases on eight tables beneath tight security.
About 59 per cent polling was recorded inside the SMC elections which was 1.2 per cent higher than the 2017 SMC polls.
The polls have been held on get collectively symbols.
A whole of 55,385 voters comprising 29,504 males and 25,881 females exercised their franchise out of the entire 93,920 people on electoral rolls on May 2.
The amount further elevated to 55,662 after the inclusion of 277 postal ballots, Deputy Commissioner Negi suggested PTI.
Meanwhile, BJP candidate Kiran Baba from Boileauganj ward alleged tampering with EVM and talked about that she would switch the courtroom.
Himachal Congress chief Pratibha Singh expressed her gratitude to the voters for the resounding victory of the Congress inside the SMC polls and thanked get collectively workers for toiling onerous to achieve this feat.
The spectacular effectivity of the Congress in SMC polls is the beginning of victory for the get collectively ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, she added.
There was a festival-like surroundings exterior the counting centre and Congress office proper right here.
Enthusiastic supporters of profitable candidates burst into celebration and welcomed the winners with beating of dhols and nagaras and distributed sweets with the announcement of outcomes.
The civic physique’s five-year time interval resulted in June 2022 nevertheless the elections have been delayed by 11 months.
SHIMLA: The ruling Congress on Thursday swept the Shimla Municipal Corporation (SMC) polls with two-third majority by profitable 24 wards out of entire 34, wresting the distinguished civic physique from the BJP.
The BJP captured 9 wards whereas the CPI-M managed to win just one ward, Shimla Deputy Commissioner Aditya Negi talked about.
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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which fielded 21 candidates, drew a clear inside the SMC polls held on Tuesday.
All the 9 independents have been moreover defeated.
A whole of 102 contestants have been inside the fray.
The Congress had acquired the assembly polls in December 2022 profitable 40 out of 68 seats.
In the 2017 SMC elections, the BJP had wrested the civic physique from the Congress for the first time in 32 years, profitable 17 wards.
The Congress had acquired 12 wards, the CPI-M one and the rest 4 wards have been captured by neutral candidates.
The Congress had profit inside the civic polls as assembly constituencies of two cabinet ministers, Aniruddh Singh (Kasumpti) and Vikramaditya Singh (Shimla Rural), and the constituency of Congress MLA Harish Janartha (Shimla Urban) constituted the SMC house.
The implementation of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) was a major factor in favour of the Congress as a result of the SMC has the easiest number of authorities workers.
Earlier, the counting of votes for 34 wards of the SMC commenced at 10 am and it was completed in 5 phases on eight tables beneath tight security.
About 59 per cent polling was recorded inside the SMC elections which was 1.2 per cent higher than the 2017 SMC polls.
The polls have been held on get collectively symbols.
A whole of 55,385 voters comprising 29,504 males and 25,881 females exercised their franchise out of the entire 93,920 people on electoral rolls on May 2.
The amount further elevated to 55,662 after the inclusion of 277 postal ballots, Deputy Commissioner Negi suggested PTI.
Meanwhile, BJP candidate Kiran Baba from Boileauganj ward alleged tampering with EVM and talked about that she would switch the courtroom.
Himachal Congress chief Pratibha Singh expressed her gratitude to the voters for the resounding victory of the Congress inside the SMC polls and thanked get collectively workers for toiling onerous to achieve this feat.
The spectacular effectivity of the Congress in SMC polls is the beginning of victory for the get collectively ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, she added.
There was a festival-like surroundings exterior the counting centre and Congress office proper right here.
Enthusiastic supporters of profitable candidates burst into celebration and welcomed the winners with beating of dhols and nagaras and distributed sweets with the announcement of outcomes.
The civic physique’s five-year time interval resulted in June 2022 nevertheless the elections have been delayed by 11 months.
