AAP won 40 out of 85 seats in Jalandhar Municipal Corporation elections, followed by Congress 24 seats, and BJP 18 seats. BSP has won one seat and independents have won two seats.
Although Aam Aadmi Party emerged as the single largest party, it could not secure the required majority of 43 seats to form the House independently. In a significant result, former Congress mayor Jagdish Raja, now with the Aam Aadmi Party, lost the election. His wife Anita Raja was also defeated in the election. Earlier, Jagdish Raja had won the MC election 6 times.
In the polling which started at 7 am, the polling in the Jalandhar Corporation elections was 50.27% but the voting percentage of the district as a whole was 54.90%.
However, the election was not without controversy. Former Jalandhar West MLA Sheetal Angural accused AAP leader and state minister Mohinder Bhagat of manipulating the election process. Angural has alleged that Bhagat brought people from outside the city to influence the vote.
In Ward 35, a heated argument broke out between Aam Aadmi Party workers and Surendra Singh, husband of Congress candidate Harsharan Kaur Happy, who was standing outside the polling station. Police were deployed to manage the situation and Congress MLA and former Indian hockey team player Pargat Singh later reached the spot.
AMRITSAR: An elderly woman helps inside a polling booth during the elections for five municipalities and 44 municipal councils and nagar panchayats in Punjab on Saturday, December 21, 2024, in Amritsar. (PTI photo)
Police had to intervene at a polling station in Ward 26 in Pratapbagh after a man urged voters to support the Congress. After the complaint, the police removed the person from the premises. Later it was revealed that the person was a relative of the Congress candidate. However, he claimed that he was only waiting for his friend after voting.
Deputy Commissioner of Jalandhar Himanshu Agarwal informed that the elections were held for a total of 137 wards including 85 wards of Jalandhar Metropolitan City, 13 of Municipal Council Bhogpur, 13 of Municipal Council Goraya, 11 of Municipal Council Phillaur, 13 of Municipal Panchayat Bilga. 1 Ward of Nagar Panchayat Shahkot and Nagar Panchayat Mehtpur. He said that a unanimous decision has been taken in 2 wards (Ward No. 1 and 3) of Nagar Panchayat Bilga. Agarwal said that about 54.90 percent voting in the district was completed peacefully. Among them, 50.27 percent in Jalandhar municipality, 71.81 percent in Bhogpur city council, 65.36 percent in Goraya city council, 55.92 percent in Phillaur city council, 66.54 percent in Bilga city panchayat, 63 percent in city council. In Nagar Panchayat Shahkot and 61.55 percent in Nagar Panchayat Mehtpur.
Congress has won the maximum number of seats in Phagwara municipality under Kapurthala district. Till the time of preparation of this report, Congress had won 22 seats, followed by Aam Aadmi Party 12 seats, BJP 5 seats and Akali Dal 2 seats. Independent candidates have won 3 seats.
In Kapurthala district, elections for Phagwara Municipality and Bhulath, Begowal, Nadala and Dhilwan Nagar Panchayats saw a total voter turnout of 56.20%.
For Phagwara Municipal Corporation, the voting percentage was 55.21%. Similarly, 60 percent voting took place in Dhilwan, 63.28 percent in Bhulath Municipality, 59.60 percent in Begowal Municipality and 64.52 percent in Nadala Municipality. AAP won 13 out of 50 wards in Pagwara, while Congress claimed 20 wards, followed by BJP and SAD with four each. SAD contested from nine wards and BJP fielded its candidates in 37 wards.
In the election of Hoshiarpur municipality, voting was held for three wards of Hoshiarpur municipality, one by-election each of Haryana and Tanda wards and the general election of Mahilpur Nagar Panchayat. Deputy Commissioner and District Election Officer Komal Mittal informed that there was 61.10 percent voting in the district. She said that there was 51.74% voting in three wards of Hoshiarpur Municipality, 68.06% in Ward No. 11 of Haryana Municipal Council, 76.43% in Ward No. 8 of Tanda Municipality and 68.22% in Mahilpur. In Hoshiarpur, the Aam Aadmi Party won all but five seats, while the Congress won three and the Independents two.
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