NEW DELHI: Except for
one, all South Indian candidates
had to bite the dust
in the Delhi municipal polls
while a prominent Bengali
candidate from BJP also
lost the race.
In the municipal elections,
BJP had fi elded two
south Indians -- one each
from Tamil Nadu and Kerala,
out of its 272 candidates
while Congress has fi elded
only one.
Except for M Nagarajan
of BJP, none of them managed
to secure victory in
the polls. Nagarajan, who is
from Tamil Nadu, won the
Pushp Vihar seat defeating
Congress’ Rakesh by a margin
of 1,673 votes.
In Nangal Raya, Congress’
Uma Naidu (43), who hails
from Andhra Pradesh, lost
to BJP’s Radhika Setia by
a margin of 1,630 votes.
Naidu polled 8,798 votes
while her rival got 10,428.
Naidu, who is a post graduate
in English, is the richest
among the south Indian
candidates owning property
worth Rs 1.75 crore, including
immovable property of
Rs 1.48 crore. BJP’s Keralite
candidate Prasannan Pillai
lost the municipal polls
for the second consecutive
time from Gharoli this time.
Mayur Vihar which has a
large chunk of Malayalee
voters falls in this ward.
Pilli was not even the runner
up in the ward where the
Congress won while BSP
came second. Jammu and
Kashmir National Panthers
Party had also fi elded a Malayali
candidate PS Prasanna
Kumar from New Seemapuri
who came fourth. G
Jaya (34) from Tamil Nadu,
a Forward Bloc candidate,
lost her race in Mayur Vihar
Phase-I ward.
73-year-old Anand
Mukherjee, a Bengali fi elded
by BJP in Chittaranjan
Park, lost to Congress’
Virender Kasana by 1,594
votes. Mukherjee holds a
PhD in Chemical Engineering.
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