The results for all the eight wards of lucknow Cantonment Board elections were declared on Monday after four hours long counting of votes. All the winning candidates were independent candidates.
In Ward no. 1, Jagdeesh Prasad won the seat with 1070 votes with a margin of 326 votes. With a margin of 614 votes, Promod Sharma won in Ward no. 2 who got 1675 votes. Roopa
Giving a tough fight to other 11 candidates in W ard no. 3 it was Roop Devi who got 639 votes and maintained margin of 430 votes. With almost similar margin of 440 votes, Swati Yadav won the seat of Ward no. 4 by getting 775 votes in her favour. In Ward no. 5, it was the highest winning margin victory of 1060 votes by Amit Kumar Shukla who got 1302 votes in his favor.
The most interesting and sensitive was Ward no. 6. In the ward there were only four candidates and interestingly two-two of them were relatives of each other. There were relation of ‘Devrani-Jethani’ between Poonam Pandey and Vandana Pandey. Similarly, Anjum Ara and Sanno were also ‘Devrani-Jethani’. However, there was tough fight between Poonam Pandey and Anjum Ara but Anjum won the seat with a margin of 107 votes with 1406 votes polled in her favor.
In Ward no. 7, Sanjay Kumar Vaish started with big lead of 360 votes while his counterpart candidate Rukhsar was trailing by nearly 200 votes. He continued to lead till the end of counting and recorded victory by a margin of 760 votes with 2063 votes polled in his favor.
Wife of Former Vice-President lucknow Cantonment Board, Reena Singhania continued the legacy of her husband and won the seat with second highest margin of 1006 votes as 2001 votes were polled in her favor.
Heavy security during counting:
Before the counting began, heavy ‘band-o-bast’ was done to avoid any kind of clashes amongst supporters. The stretch on which lucknow Cantonment Board office is located was barricaded 100 meters and only those having authorized passes were allowed to enter the counting premises.
Constitution of Cantonment Board:
Apart from the eight elected representatives, there will be six more nominated members to constitute the board. The lucknow Cantonment Board consists of total 16 members including Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, 5 members are nominated by GO-C-in-C and one by district
magistrate and eight elected members.
“The list of elected members will be sent to Defense Ministry for publication in official Gazette. Once it’s published their oath taking ceremony will be organized and there will be special board meeting to elect Vice-Chairman of the board,” said Chief Executive Officer, Shobha Gupta.
Celebrations all over cantonment area:
Soon after the results were declared, it was celebrations all around in cantonment area, the winning candidates were witnessed taking out winning procession in their respective wards. However, as Section 144 was imposed in the Cantt area it was prohibited to carry out ay kind
of election related procession.