Punjab Municipal Corporation Election Result: Voting has been done in 5 municipal corporations of Punjab today. Voting started at 7 am and continued till 4 pm. Elections have been held today in Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar, Patiala and Phagwara municipal corporations. Let us tell you that apart from 5 municipal corporations of Punjab, elections have also been held in 44 municipal councils, voting went on from seven in the morning to four in the evening. After this the counting of votes started
Punjab Municipal Corporation Election Result Live Counting started after four o’clock
Till 3 pm, 32 percent voting has taken place in Patiala district. 29 percent voting has taken place in Patiala Municipal Corporation, 71% in Bhadson Municipal Council. 76% in Nagar Parishad Gaga, 47% in Nagar Nagar Nabha, 61% in Nagar Nigam Patran, 50% in Nagar Nigam Rajpur. Whereas, in Jalandhar, 47.28 percent voting has been done till 3 pm.
42.56% voting has been done in Jalandhar Municipal Corporation, 56.16% in Municipal Council Mehatpur, 59.17% in Municipal Council Bilga, 54.77% in Municipal Council Shahkot, 56.80% in Municipal Corporation Goraya, 64.70% in Municipal Council Bhogpur, 48.69% voting has been done in Municipal Council Phillaur.
Voting is being done peacefully for a total of 137 wards including 85 wards of Jalandhar Municipal Corporation, 13 wards of Bhogpur Municipal Council, 13 wards of Goraya Municipal Council, 1 ward of Phillaur Municipal Council. There are 11 wards in Bilga Nagar Panchayat, 13 wards in Shahkot Nagar Panchayat and 1 ward in Mehatpur Nagar Panchayat. Voting continued till 4 pm, after which the gates of the polling booths were closed and counting of votes began.
AAP suffers setback, MLA’s wife loses
Meenu Parashar, wife of Aam Aadmi Party MLA Ashok Parashar Pappi from Ludhiana’s Central constituency, has suffered a crushing defeat. Meenu Parashar was defeated by BJP candidate Poonam Ratda by a margin of 574 votes. On the other hand, Aam Aadmi Party candidate Harjinder Singh Lada won by just one vote in Jalandhar Municipal Corporation’s ward number 48. He defeated independent candidate Shivnath Shibu.
Bharat Bhushan Ashu’s wife also lost
Meanwhile, SAD’s district head Bhupinder Singh Bhinda also lost the election in Ludhiana Municipal Corporation. Aam Aadmi Party’s Gurpreet Babbal defeated him. Former minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu’s wife Mamta Ashu was also contesting the election in this ward and she also had to face defeat. AAP MLA Gurpreet Gogi’s wife Dr. Sukhchain Kaur Gogi has also lost the election.
Highlights
1. A total of 683367 voters will cast their votes in Jalandhar city
2. Election results will be declared by around 8 pm
Results LIVE UPDATES:
• In the by-election held for ward number 16 of Municipal Council Gurdaspur. In a very thrilling contest, Congress candidate Varun Sharma has won by defeating Aam Aadmi Party candidate Hardeep Singh Bedi by a margin of 22 votes.
• The results of the corporation elections have started coming out. Former mayor of Jalandhar Jagdish Raj Raja has lost the election from ward number 64 and his wife Anita Raja has lost the election from ward number 65.
• At the same time, from ward number 58, former MLA Sheetal Angural’s brother Rajan Angural has been defeated by Dr. Manish. Meanwhile, BJP councillor Virendra Kumar Sharma. Who was a two-time councillor from ward number 70, was defeated by Aam Aadmi Party’s young candidate Jatin Gulati.
