Sunday, 02 October 2022 | PNS | HARIDWAR
The counting of votes for Haridwar three-tier Panchayat elections was completed on the third day of counting late on Friday night. The Bharatiya Janata Party has won the maximum number of 14 seats out of the total 44 District Panchayat seats while the Bahujan Samaj Party and Congress have secured eight seats each. The Aam Aadmi Party and Rashtriya Lokjan Party, which entered the Panchayat elections here for the first time, have opened an account by winning one seat each while the remaining seats were won by independent candidates. In Haridwar district, polling was held on September 26 for 4,305 seats of ward member, Gram Pradhan, block Panchayat member and district Panchayat member in six blocks in the three-tier Panchayat election. An 85.20 per cent voter turnout was recorded for the election of 8,751 candidates.
Certificates were given to the candidates who won the election from District Panchayat Office Haridwar. There was tight security in the office. The winning candidates took out a procession with their supporters and set off fireworks.
After the results of the Haridwar district Panchayat elections were finalised, at least 13 victorious candidates have joined the BJP. Former Union minister and Haridwar MP Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said that BJP is going to form its District Panchayat board for the first time in Haridwar. At the same time, the party’s state president Mahendra Bhatt described the victory in the Panchayat elections as historic. The BJP is set to make Pramukhs in all six blocks while the bulk of elected Gram Pradhans are also from the party.
