:The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday suffered a crushing defeat because it managed to win simply 22 out of 102 seats of zila parishad it contested in seven Haryana districts.

The get together, nevertheless, claimed that over 150 BJP-backed impartial candidates have received the elections within the 15 different districts of the state.

Results for 411 zilla parishad seats in Haryana had been introduced on Sunday. The elections had been held in three phases within the state.

The Congress and the BJP ally, the Jannayak Janata get together, didn’t contest the polls on the get together image throughout the state.

The saffron get together was worn out in Panchkula and Sirsa. In Panchkula, it misplaced all the ten seats within the district and in Sirsa, out of the full 24 seats, it misplaced on the ten it had contested on get together image.

In Ambala, the house district of cupboard minister Anil Vij, the BJP may win solely two out of complete 15 seats it contested. In Vij’s constituency, Ambala Cantonment, the only real seat went to the AAP.

In one other setback, Kurukshetra BJP MP Naib Singh Saini’s spouse Suman Saini ranked a distant fourth within the ward quantity 4 of their ancestral city of Narayangarh. Independent candidate Rajesh Devi emerged victorious within the ward. The BJP received three out of 15 seats it contested in Kurukshetra.

In Ambala City, BJP turncoat and AAP candidate Makhan Singh Lobana received towards BJP’s Mandeep Rana, who can also be the get together’s district vice-president and shut aide of two-time incumbent MLA Aseem Goel.

Manjeet Kaur, a candidate supported by Jannayak Janata Party (JJP), BJP’s ally within the state authorities, additionally received as an impartial. The BSP bagged three out of the eight seats it contested in Ambala district.

In Yamunanagar, additionally the house district of schooling minister Kanwar Pal, the saffron get together may clinch victory solely on six out of the 18 seats. The AAP and the INLD additionally received one seat every within the district. BSP received 4 out of the 16 it contested within the district.

According to Haryana BJP’s chief spokesperson Sanjay Sharma, as many as 151 BJP-backed candidates in 15 different districts had additionally emerged victorious. He mentioned out of the full 411 members in 22 zilla parishads, the BJP has the backing of over 300 elected candidates.

BJP’s drubbing within the polls comes after a formidable win within the Adampur bypoll earlier this month. The zilla parishad outcomes are thought-about as a wake-up name for the BJP in view of the 2024 state meeting and normal elections. This is the worst efficiency by the get together because it attained energy within the state in 2014.

“The coverage to contest on get together image in a number of districts appears a key issue behind the poor efficiency of the BJP within the panchayat elections. But the defeat forward of the meeting polls is worrisome for the ruling get together,” said Dr Ramji Lal, a political observer and retired professor of political science.

The elected members will in turn elect the 22 zilla parishad chiefs. The state has 143 panchayat samitis, comprising 3,081 members, who will further elect their respective president.

Haryana BJP president OP Dhankar tweeted, “Many candidates who’ve contested on get together image or had been supported by the BJP have registered win the panchayat elections, many congratulations to them.”

Independents win massive

Independent candidates received 13 out of 17 seats in Kurukshetra. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) received just one seat within the district.

Out of the 25 seats in Karnal, 23 had been received by independents, whereas the opposite two had been received by INLD and BSP candidates. Out of 17 seats in Panipat, 16 had been received by independents and the remaining by INLD candidates.

In Kaithal, independents received 20 out of the full 21 seats. The remaining seat was grabbed by the AAP candidate.

Independents secured all seats within the zilla parishad polls in Rohtak, Rewari, Hisar, Jhajjar, Fatehabad, Bhiwani, Mahendergarh, Sonepat and Charkhi Dadri districts.

In Hisar, independents received all of the 30 wards. In ward quantity 19 of Hisar, impartial candidate Om Parkash defeated his rival Jagdish Kumar by only one vote.

INLD features in Sirsa

In Sirsa, INLD had pitched its candidates on 21 wards, of which it secured win on 10 seats. AAP received 6 seats out of 19 it contested and BJP couldn’t win a single seat out of the ten it fought on get together image within the district. Eight seats had been received by independents.

From ward quantity 6 in Sirsa, INLD’s lone MLA Abhay Singh Chautala’s elder son Karan Chautala received the election by 625 votes. INLD spokesperson Rakesh Sihag mentioned the get together had pitched 72 candidates on its image within the state, of which 14 received the elections.

AAP will get a handful

The AAP was in a position to win a handful of seats within the zilla parishad polls. The get together received 14 seats within the state, with a formidable win of three seats in Ambala, six in Sirsa and two in Jind districts.

AAP nationwide convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal congratulated the profitable candidates and get together’s employees for the efficiency within the polls.

Panchayat committees

Out of the three,081 members of 143 panchayat samitis in Haryana, 117 had already been elected unanimously.

There had been 11,888 candidates within the fray for the remaining 2,964 seats, the outcomes of which had been declared on Sunday.