By means of PTI
AHMEDABAD: A BJP candidate was once once more declared a winner within the recounting of votes of a ward seat of the Ahmedabad Municipal Company (AMC) in Gujarat on Saturday, following a Preferrred Court docket order on a plea via a Congress candidate, greater than a yr after the polls have been held.
The Ahmedabad Municipal Company election have been held in January 2021.
Congress candidate Jagdish Mohnani from a seat in ward quantity 14 of Kubernagar misplaced to Gitaben Chavda of the BJP within the recounting of votes performed on Saturday, following an order handed via the Preferrred Court docket for a similar.
“The choice of votes polled via the 2 applicants remained unchanged from the counting held in February ultimate yr. Gitaben Chavda received with 17,656 votes, whilst Mohnani polled 16,992 votes,” an authentic of the state election fee mentioned.
Previous on April 26, the Preferrred Court docket had ordered recounting of votes as an “suitable plan of action to quell all doubts within the election procedure”.
Mohnani was once first declared a winner in a counting performed on February 23 ultimate yr, because of clerical error wherein votes polled within the 9th spherical weren’t added to the tally.
A couple of days later, on February 26, the returning officer issued an order pointing out that Chavda was once the true winner with upper votes, and that Mohnani was once “wrongly declared a winner because of arithmetical error” dedicated via the returning officer.
Mohnani had then approached the Gujarat Top Court docket, difficult the election officer’s transfer to revise his choice via mentioning any other candidate as elected after pronouncing the effects underneath the provisions of the Bombay Provincial Municipal Companies (Habits of Elections) Regulations, 1994.
In its submission ahead of the courts, the State Election Fee had mentioned that within the tenth and ultimate spherical of counting performed on February 23, 2021, as an alternative of taking the cumulative overall of the ninth spherical, the overall of the eighth spherical was once added as cumulative base because of a clerical error.
When the cumulative of the 9th spherical was once added as a base for the tenth spherical, the choice of votes won via Chavda was once upper than that of the Congress candidate, it mentioned.
Within the AMC, the ruling BJP had received 159 seats, and Congress received 24 seats within the election to the native our bodies held in January ultimate yr.