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Panchkula MC elections: BJP’s Kulbhushan Goyal files nomination papers for mayoral seat
ongress mayoral candidate Upinder Kaur Ahluwalia will file her nomination papers on Wednesday
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s mayoral candidate, Kulbhushan Goyal, filed his nomination papers at the DC office here on Tuesday for the Panchkula municipal corporation (MC) elections scheduled for December 27.
On Day 4 of nominations, 32 candidates filed their papers. Goyal’s wife Anju filed her papers as a covering candidate.
Before filing his papers, Goyal along with Gian Chand Gupta and other party leaders held a havan at their party office in Panchkula.
Congress mayoral candidate Upinder Kaur Ahluwalia will file her nomination papers on Wednesday.
30 candidates file papers for councillor
From ward 3, Benu Rav filed the papers; from ward 6 Parveen Pohal and Manish filed their papers.
Parveen Kumari from ward 7, two candidates—Ravikant Swami of Congress and Mamta Swami—filed papers from ward 8, Congress candidate Gurmail Kaur filed the papers from ward 10 and Omwati Punia from ward 11.
From ward 13, Rajkumar Dohri, Balkar Saini, and Naveen Bansal (Congress) filed nominations and two persons named Vivek Sharma and Sushil Garg (JJP) filed nominations from ward 14; Gautam Parsad (Congress) and Jitender Parsad filed nominations from ward 15.
While Salgi Ram from ward 16 filed papers, Amrinder Singh (JJP) and Kanhaiya Gupta filed papers for ward 18. Three candidates–Paramjit Kaur, Harpreet Kaur and Ritu Rani (Congress)—filed papers for ward 19, and Rakesh Kumar gave his name from ward 20.
No Covid for political leaders
While Kulbhushan Goyal and senior BJP leaders marched towards the DC office for filing of nominations, no one was seen following Covid-19 norms. Masks of Goyal, Gupta and others were covering their chins only.
Social distancing was neither followed on the way nor inside the DC office. Even traffic rules were violated. BJP supporters could be seen tripling on bikes and that too without helmets.
