Uttarakhand: Independent candidate Haji Akram created history by winning the post of president for the fourth time in Ramnagar Palika, Harish Rawat had campaigned, Congress had not fielded a candidate

Counting of votes for municipal elections is going on in Uttarakhand. Counting of votes is going on at different centers across the state. In this episode, the result of Ramnagar Palika has been declared. Independent candidate Haji Mohammad Akram has created history by winning the post of president in Ramnagar Palika for the fourth time in a row. Here BJP has faced defeat.
Voting was held on 23 January for the municipal elections. Counting of votes started on 25 January. Counting of votes took place in the Government College in Ramnagar. In which Haji Mohammad Akram registered a historic victory for the fourth time in a row on the post of Municipal President. After counting of votes, Haji Mohammad Akram got 11214 votes and BJP’s Madan Joshi got 10059 votes. Haji Mohammad Akram defeated BJP’s Madan Joshi by 1155 votes. Along with this, Bhuvan Pandey got 4652 votes, Narendra Sharma got 3004 votes, Bhuvan Dangwal got 1087 votes, Vinod Kumar got 327 votes, Adil got 216 votes and Asif Iqbal got 143 votes.
Let us tell you that after the internal factionalism of Congress in Ramnagar, the party high command had kept the seat of Ramnagar Nagar Palika President open. After which senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister of the state Harish Rawat supported independent candidate Haji Mohammad Akram for the post of Nagar Palika President and did road shows in his favour as well as public meetings. At the same time, senior Congress leader and former MLA Ranjit Singh Rawat from the other faction of Congress made Bhuvan Pandey contest for the post of Nagar Palika President.
If we talk about two veteran leaders of Uttarakhand of Congress, then Harish Rawat achieved success in Ramnagar. Haji Mohammad Akram, elected as the President of Ramnagar Palika for the fourth time, called this victory a victory of the people. He said that the public has given him a gift by creating an atmosphere for his 15 years of development work. He said that the BJP government had expanded the municipality by including five rural areas of Ramnagar development block in the municipality with the aim of stopping them.