The Municipal Corporations of Deoghar, Dhanbad and Chas got new Mayors on Friday as the counting results were declared. Rita Rani Khawade, Chandrashekhar Agarwal and Bholu Paswan won the Mayoral posts in these civic bodies with 37,171, 93,105 and 7,705 votes at Deoghar, Dhanbad and Chas Municipal Corporations respectively. Chandrashekhar won the Mayoral post at Dhanbad by defeating Awadesh Kumar with 42,494 votes. The Dhanbad elections were said to be very crucial given the fact that several heavyweights were trying their luck in the polls.
Halima Bibi, Umesh Singh and Krishna Dev Sahu were declared the Chairpersons of Bishrampur, Jhumritilaiya and Chakradharpur Municipal Corporations by 2009, 5676 and 3643 votes respectively. Sumitra Devi became the Chairperson of Majhigaon Municipal Panchayat with 3319 votes while the Koderma Municipal Panchayat Chairperson’s position was won by Kanti Devi with 3088 votes.
Kiran Devi, Heera Devi, Anil Kumar Pandey, RS Devi, Narendra Ram, Munni Devi, Bhagwanti Devi, N Noori, DK Shukla, Tara Devi, Nazmuddin Ansari, Babita Devi, AK Ravi, Kanta Prasad, Ranjeeta Devi, Poonam Devi, SK Choudhary, Sanjay Kumar, Salimuddin Ansari and Devnath Yadav were elected as the Councillors from Ward number 1 to 20 in Bishrampur Municipal Council.
At Chakradharpur Municipal Council, Dinesh K Jena, Preeti Horo, leela Prasad, Anand Kasera, Anju Devi, Shaheen Tabassum, Saroj Kasera, Upendra Rajat, Rashid Ahmed Ansari, Sambhu Sao, Niku Singh, Jaya Das, Maya R Mal, Somnath Rajat, lalji Prasad, Kumari Reena Mukhi, Vinay Kumar, B Nisha, Jennifer, Saroja Devi, Ravi Kumar, Jyoti Kerketta and Nadu Barla became the Councillors from Ward number 1 to 23.
In Ranchi, where the by-polls were conducted only for ward number 39, Rajesh Kumar became the Ward Councillor by defeating Manju Kumari with 357 votes. He got 2497 votes out of a total voting strength of 6431 votes. The counting for the mentioned post was carried out in five rounds. 76 votes were in the NOTA (None of the Above) category.