On Friday, Councillors, chairpersons of municipalities and town panchayats took part in the Coimbatore District Planning Commission member election at the Coimbatore District Collectorate. Despite the DMK party receiving a significant number of votes, the BJP emerged victorious in the elections.
Coimbatore: Coimbatore District Planning Commission member election was held at the Coimbatore District Collectorate on Friday.
Councillors, chairpersons of municipalities and town panchayats participated in the meeting and cast their votes.
Coimbatore district will be represented by 18 members, comprising five from the panchayat and 13 from the town panchayat, municipality, and corporation.
A total of 824 members including 100 corporators, 196 councillors in 7 municipalities and 511 councillors in 33 town panchayats cast their votes at a polling booth in the district collectorate.
Nine district councillors competed for the election of five members of the district planning committee from rural local bodies. The election was attended by 17 district councillors, seven from the AIADMK and DMK, two from the BJP, and one from the KDMK.
Gopalasamy, who contested on a BJP ticket, won by a huge margin of 15 votes. Even if the AIADMK is an ally, the BJP could have secured only 9 votes – two for the BJP and seven for the AIADMK. But Gopalaswamy of the BJP won by a huge margin as five in the DMK and one in the KDMK voted.
Though the DMK and the BJP are rival parties, the DMK has voted and the BJP has won a landslide victory.