WHO WILL BECOME NEXT PBMC CHAIRMAN? BJP wins 11, Congress 6, TDP 2 seats in Andaman’s Municipal elections

Sarthak Kanjilal
Port Blair, Sept 22: The Bharatiya Janta Party today won 11 seat out of 24 seats of Port Blair Municipal Council.
The results were declared this afternoon in which Congress got 6 seats, TDP 2 seats, AIADMK, DMK got one seat each while three seats went to independent candidates.
The Panchayat and Municipal Elections were conducted in Andaman and Nicobar Islands on 20 September 2015 and today the counting of votes is being done.
While PBMC results are already out the final results of Panchayat elections will be out only by late evening, as unlike Municipal elections in PBMC elections ballot papers were used.
As per reports from ward no. 01, S. Kannan, DMK from Ward No. 02: Someshwar Rao, Bjp, Ward No. 03 Ramzan Ali, Independent Candidate, Ward No. 04 Rani, AIADMK, Ward No. 05 Selvi, TDP, Ward No. 06 Pratima Benerjee, TDP, Ward No. 07 IP Singh, BJP, Ward No. 08 K Ganeshan, Congress, Ward No. 09 Anusiaya Devi, BJP, Ward No. 10 Sheela Singh, BJP, Ward No. 11 Vinita Malhotra, BJP, Ward No. 12 SNN Grigori, BJP, Ward No. 13: Upasana Prasad, Congress, Ward No. 14 B Eshwar Rao, BJP, Ward No. 15: C H Babu, BJP, Ward No. 16: S Usha, BJP, Ward No. 17 Dharmendra Narayan, Independent candidate, Ward No. 18 Rubana Aziz, BJP, Ward No. 19 K Muthu, Congress, Ward No. 20 M Armugam, Congress, Ward No. 21 K Arubadi, INC , Ward No. 22 Vashali Rani Dayal, Congress, Ward No. 23 Sanjay Meshak, Independent and from Ward No. 24 R N K Uday Kumar, BJP won the elections.
Soon after the declaration of results there were celebrations in all the wards of Port Blair Municipal Council. Winning candidates brought out rally to express gratitude to voters.
From ward number 3 there were reports of some violence, where supporters of losing congress candidate attacked the supporters of winning candidates and media persons.
TDP which got only one seat in last PBMC elections got two seats this time while Trinamool Congress which won one seat in last elections did not even contest the elections this time.
The BJP is presently two seats short of complete majority and in case of a tie-up with recently lost friend TDP the BJP will rule the PBMC. For Congress there is still a little hope, in case the party is able to convenience a few independent candidates, all TDP candidates, AIADMK and DMK candidates, as well. It will be interesting to watch how the permutation and combination of Andaman politics works.