Independent candidates dominate Jaali panchayat elections

April 27, 2016 | Correspondent | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: Independent candidates today edged ahead of Congress and BJP in Jaali panchayat elections. Vote counting for Jaali pattan panchayat elections concluded today morning in which Independent candidates managed to secure total 12 seats while Congress had to settle with 5 seats. BJP could manage only 3 seats. Elections on Sunday in ten polling booths recorded an overall voter turnout of 68.8%. 10 candidates were elected unopposed in the Jaali pattan panchayat prior to the elections while elections were held for the remaining 10 seats on April 24, 2016 for which 24 candidates were in fray. The names of winning candidates are as given below: Ward No 1 - Mangal Timappa Gowda Ward No 2 - Gita Alvar Jain Ward No 3 - Shobha Sridhar Naik Ward No 4 - Naik Sridhar Mahadev Ward No 5 - Qamri Bilal Ahmed Ward No 6 - Aikeri Farhana Ward No 7 - C M Devdas Ward No 8 - Ganpaya Karya Gonda Ward No 9 - Lakshmi Mahadev Naik Ward No 10 - Purandar Kopa Moger Ward No 11 - Nagaraj Mahadev Naik Ward No 12 - Mohammed Imran Lanka Ward No 13 - Abdul Raheem Shaikh Ward No 14 - Shaikh Mumtaz Begum Ward No 15 - Momin Shehnaz Begum Ward No 16 - Aftab Hussain Ward No 17 - Adam Pinamboor Ward No 18 - Shaikh Shameem Banu Ward No 19 - Syed Reshma Ward No 20 - Shaikh Fatima Mehboob - ARF