In yet another incident, pro-Pakistan slogans were raised in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki after a Samajwadi Party candidate secured victory in civic polls on Saturday.
According to reports, SP candidate Irshad Ahmed Kamar secured victory against his rival BJP candidate Mahant Hemant Das after which his supporters organised a celebrations rally in order to express their happiness. However, the enthusiastic supporters raised Pakistan Zindabad slogans to cheer up their leader.
Meanwhile, video of the incident went viral on social media platforms.
UP local body elections
In the two-phase urban local body elections, voting was also held to elect 198 chairpersons and 5,260 members of Nagar Palika parishads, 542 chairpersons of Nagar panchayats and 7,104 members of Nagar panchayats.
In all, 162 public representatives were elected unopposed, while there were as many as 83,378 candidates in the poll fray for 14,522 posts.
In the urban local body elections, 53 per cent of voters exercised their franchise in the second phase covering 38 districts on May 11, while the voter turnout in the first phase on May 4 was 52 per cent covering 37 districts of the state.
According to the State Election Commission, 4.32 crore people were eligible to cast their votes in the urban local body polls. In 2017, the polls were held in three phases and the overall polling percentage was 53 per cent.
In a similar instance, some unidentified people shouted the slogan "Pakistan Zindabad" outside a counting centre in Tilakvadi, Belagavi after Congress registered a landslide victory.
(With inputs from Deepak Nirbhay)
