India
oi-Madhuri Adnal
Chandigarh, Feb 17: The ruling Congress won six municipal corporations and emerged as the largest party in the seventh, sweeping the urban body polls in Punjab on Wednesday.
The party won Bathinda, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, Abohar, Batala and Pathankot corporations in the civic polls on February 7, held against the backdrop of the farmers’ agitation over the new agri-marketing laws.
In Moga, the party needed victories in six more wards to control the municipal corporation.
The Congress also won a majority of the 109 municipal councils and nagar panchayats, officials said, adding the details would be known later.
Mohali too went to the polls but the counting there will take place Thursday, delayed because of a repoll at two booths.
The outcome comes as a boost to the Congress, which has been backing the protest by farmers – a majority of them from Punjab and Haryana – against…