Chandigarh, May 13 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged as the dominant force in the Haryana local body elections as counting progresses on Wednesday, securing significant victories across municipal corporations and councils. The ruling party clinched the Mayor seats in the high-stakes Sonipat and Ambala Municipal Corporations, while also maintaining a strong lead in Panchkula.
In Sonipat, BJP's Rajiv Jain was elected Mayor after securing a decisive 78,035 votes, defeating his nearest rival, Kamal Diwan of the Congress, who garnered 54,788 votes. The victory was mirrored in Ambala, where BJP candidate Akshita Saini won the Mayoral race with 52,794 votes, defeating Congress's Kulwinder Kaur Saini by a substantial margin of 21,358 vot...