Ruckus during VMC school committee polls

Vadodara: Counting of votes for the municipal primary education committee of the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) on Friday was marked by huge ruckus after the saffron party candidates won on all the eight seats for which elections were held on Friday.
The BJP had won four seats uncontested earlier and polls were to be held for eight seats. Given the strong majority that the ruling party enjoys in the civic body, it was expected that the party would sail through effortlessly.
The BJP had put up eight candidates even as the Congress had put up only one. The Congress putting up a token fight knowing well that it did not stand a chance to win. In the election where each corporator was to cast eight votes, BJP has 69 corporators in the civic body. Congress has merely seven.
Six of the winning candidates got 69 votes each even as two got 68 votes. The Congress candidate got 56 votes.
The ruckus took place as one of the corporators had used tick marks and then overwrote to change them to cross marks for voting. Ideally, a corporator has to use only cross marks for voting. The Congress raised an objection to this.
When some Congress workers who were not counting agents entered room, BJP members objected to this. The Congress too objected to presence of BJP members in the counting room leading to arguments.
After a lot of arguments, it was decided that the two votes cast by over writing will not be considered. This is the reason why two BJP candidates got one vote lesser than the other six.
It is for the first time after the BJP came to power in VMC that the municipal school committee does not have a single corporator from the opposition.