Revised with important addition (2nd para) Gorakhpur: Sadhna Singh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate and daughter-in-law of late UP chief minister Veer Bahadur Singh, was elected chairman of Gorakhpur zila panchayat unopposed on Saturday.
“Sadhna Singh will be declared chairman of Gorakhpur zila panchayat on June 29, if she does not take her nomination back,” ADM (finance/revenue),” Rajesh Kumar Singh told TOI on Saturday.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate was not able to fill the nomination form following a clash between BJP and SP supporters at the gate of the collectorate.
In the melee, the SP candidate was not able to enter the premises to fill the nomination paper.
Sadhna Singh reached the collectorate and entered the nomination room at 11.45am and completed four sets of nomination papers by 3 pm.
The SP had earlier declared Alok Gupta of ward number 46 as the candidate, but changed the decision at the last moment and declared the name of Jitendra Yadav of Badhalganj ward number 47.
“I have come here for the development of all the areas of the district and will work for it,” Sadhna Singh said after her election.
“This is murder of democracy, BJP supporters didn’t allow us to enter the collectorate and that too in the presence of police and administrative officials.
The BJP supporters thrashed zila panchayat member Paras Yadav and our candidate was not able to even fill nomination paper,” said SP district president Ram Nagina Sahni.