Karnal, Feb. 26 -- In what is being seen as a repeat of 2018 elections, two families are pitted against each other again for the post of mayor in the ongoing municipal corporation elections in Karnal.

From the BJP, Renu Bala Gupta, wife of the party's district working president Brij Bhushan Gupta is eyeing her third term as mayor, while Congress has fielded former deputy mayor Manoj Wadhwa.

Two independent candidates Yash Dev and Mukesh Raghuvanshi are also in fray. Apart from two this, 70 candidates are also in fray from 18 wards of the 20-member house of Karnal MC, while two from the BJP have already been declared winner unopposed.

In 2018 elections, Gupta had won by a margin of 9,348 votes against Wadhwa's wife Asha Wadhwa, who was ...