Mohan Kuthar/Justin D’Silva/Mounesh Vishwakarma

Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru/Udupi (MS)

Mangaluru/Udupi, Dec 30: BJP recorded victory in both urban local body elections of Kotekar and Kaup.

In Kotekar, out of the 17 wards, BJP bagged 11, while Congress, Independent and SDPI got four, one and one seats each respectively.

BJP and Congress have retained their seats of 11 and 7 respectively. SDPI also retained its only seat. However, CPIM which had bagged one seat last time did not win any seat this time around. The seat went to Independent candidate.

Kotekar

Kaup

BJP and Congress contested in all the 17 seats while SDPI contested in six, independent in three and CPIM in two seats.

In ward 13 there was keen contest between Congress and SDPI candidates and the SDPI candidate won by just three votes. Congress candidate Safiya got 226 votes while SDPI candidate Salimabi Haseena secured 229 votes.

Winners of Kotekar town panchayat elections (ward wise) are as follows:

Ward 1: Adka Kalikamba - Raghava Gatty (BJP) ward 2: Kaniruthota - Bhavani Devdas (BJP) ward 3: Madoor - Sujit Madoor (BJP) ward 4: Balya - Kiran Kumar K (BJP) ward 5: Bagambila Site - Praveen Bagambila (BJP) ward 6: Vaidyanathanagara Bagambila - Divya Sathish Shetty (BJP) Ward 7: Sullanjiru Sankolige- Udaya Kumar Shetty (BJP) Ward 8: Tharipadpu - Isaac (Congress) Ward 9: Sharadanagara - Anita (BJP) ward 10: Kushalnagara - Dheeraj Kusalanagara (BJP) ward 11: Madyar - Harish Rao Madyar (BJP) Ward 12: Jalalbagh – Ayesha Jalalbagh (Congress) Ward 13: Paneer - Salimabi Haseena Shamir (SDPI) ward 14: Mitranagara - Jagadisha Kondana (BJP) Ward 15: Kondana - Naveen Kondana (BJP) Ward 16: Ajjinadka - Ahmed Bava Kotekar (Congress) Ward 17: Komarangala
– Jubeida (Congress)

In Kaup, out of the 23 wards, BJP recorded victory in 12, while Congress won seven and SDPI got three wards.

In Kaup panchayat elections, SDPI opened its account and bagged three wards for the first time. BJP got 12 seats and was clear winner for the second time in succession.

Bantwal

BJP emerged as clear winner after bagging 12 seats out of the 18 total seats in the elections of Vittal town panchayat. Congress bagged five seats while SDPI opened account with one seat.

The name of the winners (ward-wise) is as follows:

First ward: V K Mohammed Ashraf (Congress)

Second ward: Sangeetha (BJP)

Third ward: C H Jayantha (BJP)

Fourth ward: Rakshita (BJP)

Fifth ward: Vasantha K (BJP)

Sixth ward: Vijayalaxmi (BJP)

Seventh Ward: Raviprakash S (BJP)

Eighth ward: Sunita (BJP)

Ninth ward: N Krishna (BJP)

Tenth ward: Padmini (Congress)

Eleventh ward: Arun M (BJP)

Twelfth ward: Harish C H (BJP)

Thirteenth ward: Shakira (SDPI)

Fourteenth ward: Ashok Kumar Shetty (BJP)

Fifteenth ward: Lathaveni (Congress)

Sixteenth ward: Deekaiah (Congress)

Seventeenth ward: Karunakar (BJP)

Eighteenth ward: Abdul Rahiman (Congress)