India, March 12 -- The mayoral candidate of the BJP won the Ambala municipal corporation and party nominees were leading in nine of the 10 civic bodies in Haryana as counting of votes got underway on Wednesday.

The elections for the urban local bodies was held on March 2 and March 9 (in Panipat) and counting of votes started at 8am on Wednesday.

According to the results declared so far, BJP candidate Shailja Sachdeva won the bypoll for the post of mayor for the Ambala municipal corporation defeating Amisha Chawla of the Congress by 20,487 votes.

In Karnal, Union minister and former chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar's loyalist Renu Bala Gupta (BJP) defeated Manoj Kumar Wadhwa of the Congress. She won with a margin of 25,359 votes for t...