Gadchiroli, There was widespread enthusiasm among the voters in the 9 Nagar Panchayat elections held in the district on Tuesday. But to get elected, some candidates were shown the temptation of huge amount of money. Somewhere the discussion of distributing 500 rupees to 1000 rupees to the voters is starting everywhere. In Chamorshi, Aheri, Kurkheda, Mulchera, Etapalli and Dhanora Nagar Panchayat areas, this year’s elections have been in discussion not for debates but because of the enthusiasm shown by the candidates for distributing money.
In Gadchiroli district, universal elections were held for nine nagar panchayats namely Kurkheda, Korchi, Dhanora, Chamorshi, Aheri, Mulchera, Etapalli, Bhamragad and Sironcha on Tuesday. Tight police arrangements were kept at the polling stations of the district at the time of polling. Nothing inappropriate happened anywhere. In such a situation, there was always a riot of Naxalites. But this year, the police conducted the polling peacefully by defeating the intentions of the Naxalites.
In the election of Nagar Panchayat in the district this year the leaders of BJP, Congress, Nationalist Congress and Shiv Sena tried hard. Guardian minister Eknath Shinde had also put his reputation at stake. Congress-Shiv Sena in Chamorshi and Shivsena-Nationalist Congress in Kurkheda, Aheri and Dhanora. The strength of the BJP was on both the MLA and the district president. On behalf of Congress, Minister Vijay Wadettiwar himself, former MLA Dr. Namdev Usendi and District President Mahendra Brahmanwade insisted.
Not a single leader came for campaigning from BJP except former minister Sudhir Mungantiwar. NCP leader MLA Dharmaraobaba Atram took charge of the election campaign. Ransangram was started for the last 8 days for the election of 9 Nagar Panchayats in the district. A day before the polling, there was a ruckus in distributing money to voters in most places. In Chamorshi and Mulchera, the discussion of distributing 1 thousand to 2 thousand rupees per voter is starting among the voters.
Election assessment begins
There was a lot of enthusiasm among the candidates and voters in the election of Nagar Panchayat as compared to the election of Gram Panchayat in the district. In this election, only local issues remained in the discussion. Due to not getting tickets to many aspirants of the main party, he showed his power by entering other parties. At the same time, efforts were made to adopt the voters by using saam, daam, dand.
After the voting concluded on Tuesday, now along with the candidates, the workers of political parties are betting on the victory of their respective candidates. The evaluation of the election has started, giving an estimate about how many votes someone got, whose votes went to whom. But who will come after choosing, it will be clear only after the counting of votes.