The names of elected candidates of the Municipal Corporations and Municipal Committees have been notified under sub section (1) of Section 14 of Haryana Municipal Corporation Act, 1994 and sub-section (2) of Section 24 of the Haryana Municipal Act, 1973 by the State Election Commission here on Friday.
Dharam Vir, State Election Commissioner, Haryana stated that the polling on 144 wards of seven Municipal Corporations-Ambala, Panchkula, Karnal, Panipat, Hisar, Rohtak, Yamuna Nagar and 28 Wards of two Municipal Committees-Kalanaur and Farukh Nagar took place on June 2 and the result was announced on June 4.
Vir added that in all the 1,686 candidates (1,047 males and 639 females) had contested the elections including 120 candidates from BJP on party symbol, 140 from INlD party symbol, 4 from CPI(M) on party symbols and 3 from NCP party symbol had contested the elections. Rests of the candidates were independent candidates.
“25 candidates of the BJP, 16 candidates of INlD and 103 independent candidates have been declared elected in the elections”, Vir added.
Six candidates disqualified
Haryana State Election Commission has disqualified six candidates for three years who had contested general elections of Municipal Council, Kaithal on December 19, 2010, but they neither submitted their election expenditure statement nor bothered to file reply of the show cause notice issued to them.
The results of elections of Municipal Council, Kaithal were also declared the
same day.
These candidates are Reena and Santosh of Ward No 4, Urmila and Saroj Bala of Ward No.15, Sanjeev of Ward No.27 and Sweety of Ward No.32 .
As per the Haryana Municipal Election Expenditure (Maintenance and Submission of Accounts) order, 2006, every contesting candidate has to file his or her account of election expenses within 30 days after the declaration of election result.