BJP Moves Madhya Pradesh Councillors To Haryana To Check Cross-Voting
NDTV
The councillors have been shifted to a resort in Haryana in what is perhaps the first example of resort politics percolating to the level of local body polls. They will return to Gwalior tomorrow ahead of the voting, sources said.
The BJP has shifted its newly elected councillors out Madhya Pradesh ahead of tomorrow's election for the chairperson of the civic body's council, apprehensive that the Congress will induce them to cross-vote for its candidate. The councillors have been shifted to a resort in Haryana in what is perhaps the first example of resort politics percolating to the level of local body polls. They will return to Gwalior tomorrow ahead of the voting, sources said.
In last month's municipal polls in Gwalior -- home turf of Union ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia and Narendra Singh Tomar, and state home minister Narottam Mishra -- the Congress won mayor's post after 57 years.
But the overall majority in the 66 municipal wards went to the BJP. The party won a simple majority of 34 wards, the Congress came second with 25 wards. Six Independents and one BSP councillor also won.
The crucial mayoral seat went to Shobha Sikharwar of the Congress.
