SURAT: Members of Aam Aadmi Party allegedly ransacked furniture at Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) headquarter on Friday after the results of Nagar Prathmik Shikshan Samiti (NPSS) were announced.
All seven BJP candidates in the fray won while only one of the two candidates from AAP was victorious.
Of the 12 seats, four BJP candidates Swati Sosa, Ranjan Goswami, Rajendra Kapadiya and Vinod Gajera were declared uncontested winners earlier.
Election for the remaining eight seats was held on Friday.
In SMC, BJP has 93 councillors against 27 from AAP.
For the 12 NPSS seats, BJP had initially fielded 10 candidates while AAP had two candidates.
But Rakesh Bhikhadiya, a BJP councillor, jumped into the fray as an independent candidate.
AAP had earlier expressed fears of an attempt by BJP to ensure the victory of their additional candidate.
On Friday, the voting took place between 3 to 5 pm and the counting started at 5.30 pm.
Soon after counting as AAP’s Ramesh Parmar lost, his party members started a protest.
Cops even detained a few AAP leaders.
“The election officials refused to hold recounting on our demand.
They also refused to show us the ballot papers.
Since our demands were not accepted we started a protest,” said Dharmesh Bhanderi, leader of opposition in SMC.
“AAP leaders used abusive language and misbehaved with women.
Voting and counting was held by AAP leaders.
They were shown all ballot papers and after all agreed two ballot papers were cancelled.
The process was held in a transparent manner,” said Hemali Boghawala, city mayor.
Ruckus at Surat municipal corporation after nagar prathmik shikshan samiti election
