Bantwal : Congress supported candidates have emerged victorious in the elections to the Pudu Gram Panchayat. The counting was held on Wednesday Of the total 32 seats, the Congress supported candidates have won in 22 seats, Of the winners, nine are BJP supported while Jameela, a candidate supported by SDPI, has also registered a win.
The victorious Congress supported candidates are Jahira Abbas, Vanitha, Hemalatha, Akhter Hussain, Faizal, Hilda Miranda, Atika, Durgesh Shetty, Sulaiman, Abdul Khader, Nalinakshi, Lidia Pinto, Jayanthi, Mohammad Asif, Hilda D’Souza,. Lakshmi, Vasanthi Shetty, Abdul Latif, MK Abdul Khader, Manorama, Ramlan. The BJP supported candidates who won are Ganesh, Janaki, Malathi, Jagadish, Bharathi, Vasanthi K Shetty, Manoj Acharya, Pushpalatha and Geetha.
The victorious candidates also took out a victory march from BC Road’s Taluk office till Farangipete. Senior Congress leader Janardhan Poojari, Ashwini Kumar, Harikrishna Bantwal, UT Khader and others were present.