GHAZIABAD: Municipal council wards in the trans-Hindon urban areas of Ghaziabad were swept away by BJP, though the party failed to replicate its performance in rural areas of the district. All 13 municipal wards in Indirapuram, Vaishali, Kaushambi and Vasundhara, were won by BJP candidates.
Upscale areas in other parts of city too were dominated by BJP. Its candidates also won in Kavi Nagar and Raj Nagar. Candidates fielded by local RWAs and apartment owners associations failed to make a mark.
However, BJP failed to win chairperson posts in any of the four nagar panchayats. The chairperson's post in Muslim-dominated Dasna was won by Hansar Ali of All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM). Mayawati's BSP won the Patla chairperson's post. Similarly, Faridnagar and Niwadi elected independent candidates as their respective chairpersons.
But in the 13 wards of the trans-Hindon area, the picture was very different. Victorious BJP candidates polled between 32% and 90% of votes in individual wards. In Vaibhav Khand 1, BJP's Abhinav Jain garnered 89.95% of total votes polled, the highest. Sanjay Singh of BJP won 63% votes in Shipra Sun City to win the seat. Rajendra Tyagi of BJP bagged 59% votes in Rajnagar to win the seat for the fifth time in a row.
The Kaushambi Apartments RWAs (KARWA) had backed an independent candidate, Vinay Maheswari, from Ward No 72 but he lost to BJP's Manoj Goyal. "Maheshwari fared well in booths that had voters from high-rises. Voters in independent plots and in areas that are slightly outside Kaushambi did not vote for him," said KARWA president Vinay Mittal.
Shaili Singh, who was fielded by the Federation of Apartment Owners' Association (FedAOA) from Ahimsa Khand, lost to her BJP rival Sunita Kumari but by a wafer-thin margin. "Singh lost by just 82 votes. If more number of voters from high-rise apartments had ventured out to cast their ballot, she would have won," said FedAOA president Alok Kumar.
Upscale areas in other parts of city too were dominated by BJP. Its candidates also won in Kavi Nagar and Raj Nagar. Candidates fielded by local RWAs and apartment owners associations failed to make a mark.
However, BJP failed to win chairperson posts in any of the four nagar panchayats. The chairperson's post in Muslim-dominated Dasna was won by Hansar Ali of All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM). Mayawati's BSP won the Patla chairperson's post. Similarly, Faridnagar and Niwadi elected independent candidates as their respective chairpersons.
But in the 13 wards of the trans-Hindon area, the picture was very different. Victorious BJP candidates polled between 32% and 90% of votes in individual wards. In Vaibhav Khand 1, BJP's Abhinav Jain garnered 89.95% of total votes polled, the highest. Sanjay Singh of BJP won 63% votes in Shipra Sun City to win the seat. Rajendra Tyagi of BJP bagged 59% votes in Rajnagar to win the seat for the fifth time in a row.
The Kaushambi Apartments RWAs (KARWA) had backed an independent candidate, Vinay Maheswari, from Ward No 72 but he lost to BJP's Manoj Goyal. "Maheshwari fared well in booths that had voters from high-rises. Voters in independent plots and in areas that are slightly outside Kaushambi did not vote for him," said KARWA president Vinay Mittal.
Shaili Singh, who was fielded by the Federation of Apartment Owners' Association (FedAOA) from Ahimsa Khand, lost to her BJP rival Sunita Kumari but by a wafer-thin margin. "Singh lost by just 82 votes. If more number of voters from high-rise apartments had ventured out to cast their ballot, she would have won," said FedAOA president Alok Kumar.
Get latest news & live updates on the go on your pc with News App. Download The Times of India news app for your device.
