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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the municipal polls successful Haryana connected Wednesday by winning the mayoral predetermination to each 3 corporations – Ambala, Sonipat and Panchkula — successful a nonstop contention with the Congress, and the president’s posts to 3 of the 4 municipal bodies. However, the day’s upset came from Uklana. Independent Reema Soni, a 23-year-old student, stunned the BJP by defeating its campaigner Nikita Goel by 2,806 votes for the municipal committee president’s post. In Ambala, BJP’s Akshita Saini trounced Congress’ Kulvinder Kaur Saini to triumph the mayoral seat, reserved for a Backward Class woman. Sonipat saw a high-stakes rematch betwixt the aforesaid candidates who contested past year’s mayoral bypoll. Outgoing BJP mayor Rajiv Jain defeated Congress’ Kamal Dewan again.
Massive defeat
In Panchkula, BJP’s Shyam Lal Bansal polled 68,544 votes to manus retired a monolithic decision to Congress’ Sudha Bhardwaj. In a station connected “X”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked the “family members successful the State”, and said “this is simply a awesome of spot the radical of Haryana person successful the double-engine government”. The results came arsenic a daze for the Congress, which holds Ambala and Panchkula Assembly constituencies. Sonipat, too, is considered a stronghold of erstwhile Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and his family. The BJP also took the president’s station in Rewari municipal assembly and in Dharuhera and Sampla municipal committees. Sampla falls wrong the Garhi Sampla-Kiloi Assembly constituency represented by Mr. Hooda, but interestingly, the enactment had not fielded immoderate campaigner from this municipal body.
‘Shock win’
In Uklana, 23-year-old Independent Reema Soni pulled disconnected a daze triumph contempt Chief Minister Nayab Saini’s high-octane run blitz. A pupil herself, Ms. Soni built her run astir education, jobs, and healthcare — a transportation that clicked with young voters. With nary different enactment successful the fray, she besides swept up the anti-incumbency vote. Mr. Saini attributed his party’s triumph to “unwavering spot of the radical successful the enactment of Mr. Modi, his nationalist acceptance, and his development-oriented policies”. Mr. Hooda “shrugged off” the Congress’ mediocre show, arguing it had really done amended than the past civic polls. Pointing to Sonipat, helium said: “We got conscionable 25,000 votes successful past year’s bypoll. This clip it’s astir 50,000.” He added that municipal corporations had ever been BJP strongholds.
