Congress candidate and wife of MlA Sukhdeo Bhagat Anupama Bhagat won the Chairman’s post by 3,468 votes while Rauf Ansari (Congress) became the Vice-Chairman by a margin of 2104 votes in the lohardaga Municipal Council election.
For chairman’s post the candidates were Manorama Ekka from BJP, Anupama Bhagat from Congress, Shushila Kujur from AJSU, Jaywanti Kumari from JMM and Mamta Ekka and Samela Bhagat fought independently. For the post of vice chairman the candidates were Om Prakash Singh from BJP, Rauf Ansari from Congress, Balram Kumar from AJSU, Islam Ansari from JMM, Balmukund lohra from JVM and the independent candidates were Vimalkant Singh, Nikhil Kumar, Ashok Kumar Sahu and Kishun Mahto. The counting of votes for lohardaga civic body election was held peacefully on Friday on the premises of Agriculture market hall. The counting started at 8 am. The process of counting was held in a total of 30 tables. For chairman and vice chairman 10 tables each were laid and two employees were deployed in each table. The counting was completed in 5 rounds. In the election 6 candidates for chairman, 10 candidates for vice chairman and 118 candidates for ward councilors were in the battle field. A total of 24634 voters used their votes out of 34432.
The DC, SP and SDO were on toes to hold the counting peacefully. DC Binod Kumar and the SP Rajkumar lakra thanked the denizens to cooperate on hold of peaceful election. The chairman and the vice chairman told that the history of lohardaga municipal has always been glorious. So the development would be assured impartial in all respect.