No Note Ban Blues: BJP-SAD Sweep Chandigarh Municipal Polls
The elections to 26 wards of the Municipal Corporation were seen as a litmus test for BJP & Congress post note ban.
The BJP-Shiromani Akali Dal alliance on Tuesday attained clear majority in the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation polls, winning 20 out of the 26 wards.
The BJP won in 20 wards, and the Congress won four, while one ward went to an Independent candidate, an election office spokesman confirmed in Chandigarh.
Prominent among those who won were BJP Mayor Arun Sood, and Congress stalwart Devinder Singh Babla.
The overall polling percentage in the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation election was 59.54 percent.
The elections to 26 wards of the Municipal Corporation were seen as a litmus test for BJP and Congress post demonetisation.
A total of 122 candidates, including 67 Independents, contested the polls. A total of 5,07,627 voters, including 2,37,374 women, cast their ballots.
While the Congress and the BJP contested all 26 wards, the BSP put up candidates in the fray from 17 wards.
The Municipal Corporation has 36 members, of which 26 are elected councillors, nine are nominated councillors and one is an MP (ex-officio member of the House).
Congress had made demonetisation a major issue in the polls, with its city unit leaders saying the move was implemented without any "application of mind" and had put the public to "great hardships".
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