Kishan Suryawanshi will be the new Chairman of Bhopal Municipal Corporation. He was elected unopposed. Congress councilors shunned the election process of the president. At the same time, 3 BJP and one Congress councilor were elected in the appeal committee. All of them were also elected unopposed.
In this process, a candidate of BJP withdrew his form. Due to which the woman councilor of Congress got the place in the Appeal Committee. The sign on the nomination of a Congress councilor was different, due to this he was rejected.
Medical Education Minister Vishwas Sarang, MLA Rameshwar Sharma and party district president Sumit Pachauri were present during the election process.
The election process started at 3 pm. After Congress councilors objected to the absence of media, the media was allowed entry. For the Chairman, BJP had made ward-28 councilor Kishan Suryawanshi its candidate.
Congress, on the other hand, did not declare a candidate. After a process of about one and a half hours, Collector Avinash Lavania declared Suryavanshi elected president. Suryavanshi took the certificate along with senior leaders, Mayor Malti Rai and senior councilors.
Suryavanshi, the new chairman of the municipal corporation introduced all the councilors. Also requested the opposition to have a positive discussion. Leader of Opposition Shabista Zaki, former Leader of Opposition Mohd Sagir, Senior Councilor Sarwar, Azizuddin, Priyanka Mishra and others also assured a positive discussion on the issue of development of the city. Senior BJP councilors Ravindra Yeti, Surendra Vadika, Manoj Rathore and Rajesh Hingorani played an important role in the election process.
The BJP has won 58 out of 85 wards of the municipal corporation.
At the same time, 22 councilors of Congress and 5 independents have won. For the election of the Chairman, BJP had 15 more councilors than the required numbers. Therefore, it was believed from the beginning that BJP candidate Suryavanshi would be elected unopposed.