Asthe counting of votes for the civic body poll held on February 14, concludedtoday, the result came as a shock to many Congress candidates who wereconfident of making it this time. However, the independent candidates surprisedthe voters by winning 59 out of 110 wards, while the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)miserably failed to woo voters and couldn’t win even a single ward.
Theindependent candidates won more than 50% of wards, and Congress trailed behindwinning 47/110 wards, the parties BSP, BJP, and SAD languished in lowersingle-digits i.e. two and one each respectively, while AAP miserably failedwoo voters.
Theseresults, ahead of the state Assembly polls have reaffirmed Congress hold in thestate, while sending out a clear message to BJP, SAD and AAP to pull up thesocks.
TheBJP and SAD who won one-ward each in Nurmahal and Alwalpur, respectively, havereceived a clear cut message from the voters that it needs to work a lot on theground. However, the AAP that was boosting the support of common masses andfarmers saying they are eyeing change in Punjab Politics, have received a majorsetback as it couldn’t win a single ward despite contesting on its own symbolfrom as many as 72 wards.
Thepolls were held for six municipal councils i.e. Adampur, Alawalpur, Kartarpur,Nakodar, Nurmahal and Phillaur and two nagar panchayats - Lohian Khas andMehatpur and there were a total 110 wards. Check the table listed below to knowwhich party won how many wards in the eight local bodies of Jalandhar.
