Surjeet Singh Chouhan, who won the contest by beating Congress’ Dolly Manish Yadav on Thursday, would be the new chairperson of Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC).In the first meeting of the newly elected corporators held for electing chairperson of the BMC Surjeet Singh got 59 votes while Dolly Manish Yadav got 26 votes and one of the votes was canceled. The meeting was held at BMC auditorium at ISBT premises.
The process was completed in the presence of district election officer and collector Nishant Warwade.For the contest chairperson of BMC, BJP corporator from ward no 51 Surjeet Singh Chouhan was fielded by BJP corporators team while Congress corporator Dolly Manish Yadav was fielded against Singh.
According to the rules, time was provided for checking nominations, nomination withdrawal and other procedure and later election for the chairperson was conducted.After the counting of the votes district election officer and collector Nishant Warwade declared Surjeet Singh Chouhan victorious who won the contest by getting 35 votes more than Dolly Manish Yadav and provided certificate to Singh.Singh received the certificate from BMC mayor Alok Sharma later. The election of chairperson was done under the preview of Madhya Pradesh Nagar Palika Adhiniyam.
Along with the election of the chairperson election of Appeal Committee was conducted in which five nominations were received but within the stipulated time Fakeera Kachke opted to withdraw and the rest were elected unopposed.Saroj Jain, Sanjeev Gupta, Ravindra Yati and Pradeep Monu Saxena were elected as members of Appeal Committee