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oi-Deepika S
New Delhi, Feb 17: Congress is all set to get its first mayor in Bathinda as counting in 2,302 wards of eight municipal corporations and 109 municipal council-nagar panchayats in Punjab is underway. This is the first time in 53 years the party has won the polls in Bathinda
In Bathinda municipal corporation, Congress won in 14 wards while former NDA-ally SAD has registered win in seven wards.
Following the result, Punjab minister Manpreet Singh Badal said history has been created.
“Bathinda will get a Congress Mayor for the 1st time in 53 years! Thank you to ALL Bathinda residents,” he tweeted.
History has been made today!
Bathinda will get a Congress Mayor for the 1st time in 53 years!
Thank you to ALL Bathinda residents.Congratulations to the people of Bathinda for a spectacular victory.
Kudos to all Congress candidates and workers, who toiled for this day. pic.twitter.com/Xvczq5MjfU— Manpreet Singh Badal (@MSBADAL) February 17, 2021
Meanwhile, the Congress party has won five of the seven municipa l corporations in Punjab that went to polls on February 14. The party has won Abohar, Bathinda, Kapurthala, Hoshiarpur, and Moga and is leading in Batala and Hoshiarpur.
The counting started at 9 am. Tight security arrangements have been made at the counting centres, they said.
Over 70 per cent of voting was recorded in the civic body elections on February 14.
A total of 9,222 candidates were in the fray for elections to 2,302 wards of the eight municipal corporations of Abohar, Bathinda, Batala, Kapurthala, Mohali, Hoshiarpur, Pathankot and Moga and 109 municipal councils in the state.
As the State Election Commission had ordered on Tuesday re-polling at two polling booths of Mohali Municipal Corporation, the counting for this entire civic body will take place on Thursday.
Of the total candidates, 2,832 were independents, 2,037 from the ruling Congress, while 1,569 were Shiromani Akali Dal nominees.
The BJP, AAP and the BSP had fielded 1,003, 1,606 and 160 candidates, respectively.
The SAD and the BJP fought the elections separately after the former walked out of the National Democratic Alliance over the farm laws issue last year.
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