President Ram Nath Kovind’s daughter-in-law, who contested the urban local bodies polls for the post of chairperson of the Jhinjhak Nagar Palika Parishad as a rebel BJP candidate has to face humiliating defeat.
After being denied ticket by the BJP, Deepa Kovind, wife of President Kovind’s nephew Pankaj, the son of his elder brother Pyarelal, contested the elections as an Independent candidate. However, BJP also could not win the seat as the BSP candidate Sarojni won it by a comfortable margin.
Deepa polled only 338 votes while the winner Sarojni got 3,130 votes and won the election. The BJP candidate Saionji Devi got around 2,000 votes. Earlier Deepa Kovind had sought a ticket for the Jhinjhak Nagar Palika Parishad chairman’s post. “But a survey at the local level found that another woman, Sarojani Devi, enjoyed the support of the people and she was given the ticket,” said Rahuldev Agnihotri, district unit president of the BJP in Kanpur Dehat. President Kovind belongs to Paurakh village of Kanpur Dehat but his extended family resides in Jhinjhak.
Meanwhile, Saba Siddiqui, sister in law of film star nawazueddin Siddiqui lost the election for the post of chairman of Budhana nagar panchayat in Muzaffarnagar district. She lost her security deposits.