BJP leader Tikshan Sud’s wife loses in Hoshiarpur

Deepkamal Kaur
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, February 17

In the results declared today, the Congress got a clear majority in two Municipal Corporations of Kapurthala and Hoshiarpur with 45 and 41 seats, respectively, out of a total of 50 wards. The farmers’ agitation and the split between the SAD and the BJP cost the two parties dearly.

Akalis wiped out

In Hoshiarpur, while the Akalis were completely wiped out, BJP, which ruled the last MC House and has had bigwigs to represent the area, managed to win four seats

In Hoshiarpur, while the Akalis were completely wiped out, the BJP, which ruled the last MC House and has had bigwigs to represent the area (Union MoS Som Parkash and ex-Union MoS Vijay Sampla), managed to win four seats. The biggest shocker for the saffron party from this traditional bastion was the defeat of wife of former BJP minister Tikshan Sud, Rakesh Kumari, from ward No 6. AAP won two wards and Independents three.

The BJP and AAP suffered even a bigger jolt in Kapurthala where they scored a duck. In the eight ULBs of Jalandhar, Congress got a clear majority in Phillaur winning 11 of 15 wards. In Sultanpur Lodhi, Congress won in 10 of 13 wards and the remaining three went to the Akali Dal. In Nawanshahr MC too, Congress got an edge clinching 11 of 19 wards.