Karnal/Rohtak, March 13 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) registered a decisive victory in the Haryana mayoral elections on Wednesday, winning nine out of the ten municipal corporations in the state. The counting of votes began at 8 am, following the elections held on March 2 and March 9 (in Panipat).

In Ambala, BJP candidate Shailja Sachdeva secured the mayoral seat by defeating Congress's Amisha Chawla with a margin of 20,487 votes. The bypoll was necessitated after former mayor Shakti Rani Sharma was elected as a BJP MLA from Kalka.

In Karnal, Union minister and former chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar's close aide, Renu Bala Gupta, won for the third consecutive time. She defeated Congress's Manoj Kumar Wadhwa by 25,359 votes.

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