India
oi-Madhuri Adnal
Chandigarh, Feb 17: The counting of votes for 2,302 wards of eight municipal corporations and 109 municipal councils and nagar panchayats will take place today. Polls were held for 117 urban local bodies, including eight high-stake municipal corporations, with close to 9,222 candidates in the fray on February 14.
Overall, 71.39 per cent turnout was recorded in the polls for the civic bodies for which Congress, AAP, BJP and Akali Dal are taking on each other.
However, the result of the SAS Nagar municipal corporation is likely to be announced later.
A total of 9,222 candidates are in the fray for the elections to 2,302 wards of eight municipal corporations of Abohar, Bathinda Batala, Kapurthala, Mohali, Hoshiarpur, Pathankot and Moga, 109 municipal councils and nagar panchayats.
Of the total candidates, 2,832 are independents, 2,037 from the ruling Congress while 1,569 are SAD…