Rival candidate got more votes than me: Panchayat poll 'winner' to authorities
Champawat (PTI): A panchayat poll candidate who was given the certificate of victory by the election officer here has informed the authorities that she polled fewer votes than her rival and that he should be declared the winner.
This played out after the result for the election to the post of Tarkuli gram panchayat head were declared. The gram panchayat is part of Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami's assembly constituency, Champawat.
While Kajal Bisht, who was declared the winner, secured 103 votes, her rival candidate Sumit Kumar got 106.
"I told the election officer that I did not win the election, I lost. My opponent got three more votes than me, so the certificate should be given to the rightful winner," Bisht said.
When the matter was not resolved at the level of the election officer, Bisht filed a case in the court of Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Anurag Arya.
The SDM accepted Bisht's objection and ordered the election officer to get the votes recounted within 30 days. Officials said the date for recounting is likely to be announced soon.
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Niqab incident: Nitish Kumar perhaps revealing his true colours, says J-K CM
Srinagar (PTI): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday criticised his Bihar counterpart over the niqab incident and said that Nitish Kumar might be slowly revealing his true nature.
"Nitish Kumar, who was once considered a secular leader, may be slowly showing his true colours," Abdullah told reporters here on the sidelines of a function.
Abdullah said Kumar removing the face veil of a Muslim woman doctor was wrong and cannot be justified by any means.
"We have seen this kind of incident here several years ago. Have you forgotten how Mehbooba Mufti removed the burqa of a legitimate voter inside a polling station? That act was wrong, and this act (of Kumar) is also wrong.
"If the (Bihar) chief minister did not want to hand over the order to her (Muslim woman), they could have kept her aside. However, to humiliate her like this is totally wrong," the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said.
Kumar stirred a huge controversy after he removed the face veil of a Muslim woman at a function earlier this week.
