Delhi results will help BJP in Haryana MC polls: Badoli

Mayors of Karnal, Ambala, Sonepat, Y'nagar, Rohtak, Hisar, Gurugram and Faridabad will be elected on March 2, and Panipat on March 9

- Bhavey Nagpal

ROHTAK: Haryana BJP chief Mohan Lal Badoli on Friday announced the party's candidates for the post of mayor in nine municipal corporations that go to the polls in March.

The municipal corporation elections will be held in Gurugram, Manesar, Faridabad, Panipat, Karnal, Rohtak, Hisar and Yamunanagar to elect councilors and their respective mayors. Barring Panipat, the rest of the MCs will go to the polls on March 2. The elections in Panipat will be held on March 9. The results for all MCs will be announced March 12.

The BJP's list has six women candidates, including outgoing Karnal mayor Renu Bala Gupta, a loyalist of Union power minister and former chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar.

Other women candidates in the fray are state BJP women's wing member Rajrani Malhotra from Gurugram municipal corporation; Parveen Joshi, the chairperson of the Haryana State Commission for Protection of Child Rights from Faridabad; Komal Saini from Panipat; Suman Bahmani, a former district education officer who took voluntary retirement last year, from Yamunanagar; and Selja Sachdeva from Ambala.