Rishikesh Municipal Corporation
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Rishikesh Municipal Corporation ऋषिकेश नगर निगम Rishikesh Nagar Nigam | |
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| Unicameral Legislature | |
| Type | |
| Type | |
| Leadership | |
Shambhu Paswan, BJP since 7 February 2025 | |
G. C. Gurwant, PCS | |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 40 |
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Political groups | Government (18)
Opposition (15)
Others (16)
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| Elections | |
| First-past-the-post | |
Last election | 23 January 2025 |
Next election | 2030 |
| Meeting place | |
| Nagar Nigam Bhavan, Rishikesh | |
| Website | |
| Nagar Nigam Rishikesh | |
The Rishikesh Municipal Corporation is the civic body that governs the city of Rishikesh in Uttarakhand, India.
Structure
[edit]This corporation consists of 40 wards and is headed by a mayor who presides over a deputy mayor and 39 other corporators representing the wards. The mayor is elected directly through a first-past-the-post voting system and the deputy mayor is elected by the corporators from among their numbers.[1]
List of mayors
[edit]| S. No. | Name | Term | Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anita Mamgain | 2 December 2018 | 3 December 2023 | 5 years, 1 day | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| Administrator | 3 December 2023 | 6 February 2025 | 1 year, 66 days | Government of Uttarakhand | ||
| 2 | Shambhu Paswan | 7 February 2025 | Incumbent | 3 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
Current members
[edit]Rishikesh Municipal Corporation has a total of 40 members or corporators, who are directly elected after a term of 5 years. The council is led by the Mayor. The latest elections were held in 23 January 2025. The current mayor of Rishikesh is Shambhu Paswan of the Bharatiya Janata Party.[2]
| Mayor: Shambhu Paswan | |||||
| Ward No | Ward Name | Name of Corporator | Party[3] | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chandreshwar Nagar | Kiran Yadav | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 2 | Triveni Colony | Roopa Devi | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 3 | Durga Mandir | Priyanka Yadav | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 4 | Bhairav Mandir | Pooja Nautiyal | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 5 | Pushkar Mandir | Devendra Kumar Prajapati | Indian National Congress | ||
| 6 | Adarshgram | Chetan Chauhan | Independent | ||
| 7 | Mayakund | Ajay Kumar Dass | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 8 | Bharat Mandir | Madhavi Gupta | Independent | ||
| 9 | Mukherjee Marg | Reena | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 10 | Sadanand Marg | Anshu Dang | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 11 | Ashutosh Nagar | Bhagwan Singh Panwar | Indian National Congress | ||
| 12 | Pragati Vihar | Sarojini Thapliyal | Indian National Congress | ||
| 13 | Valmiki Nagar | Meghna | Indian National Congress | ||
| 14 | Subhash Nagar | Simran | Independent | ||
| 15 | Maniram Marg | Prabhakar Sharma | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 16 | Tilak Marg | Prince Dharmesh Manchanda | Independent | ||
| 17 | Ganga Vihar | Ram Kumar Sangar | Independent | ||
| 18 | Shanti Nagar | Rajesh Kumar | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 19 | Someshwar Mandir | Payal Bisht | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 20 | Ganga Nagar | Sandhya Bisht Goyal | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 21 | Upper Ganganagar | Sunita Bhardwaj | Independent | ||
| 22 | Shastri Nagar | Reha Sanjay Dhyani | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 23 | Sarvahara Nagar | Veer Pal | Indian National Congress | ||
| 24 | Bharat Vihar | Tanu Vikas Tewatia | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 25 | Awas Vikas | Jyoti Ashok Paswan | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 26 | Shivaji Nagar | Surendra Singh Negi | Independent | ||
| 27 | Bairaj Marg | Abhinav Singh | Indian National Congress | ||
| 28 | Veerbhadra Mandir | Luv Kamboj | Independent | ||
| 29 | Bees Bigha | Sachvir Singh Bhandari | Independent | ||
| 30 | Meeranagar | Harshvardhan Rawat | Independent | ||
| 31 | Bapugram | Muskan | Independent | ||
| 32 | Suman Vihar | Anil Rawat | Independent | ||
| 33 | Geeta Nagar | Dinesh Singh Rawat | Independent | ||
| 34 | Malviya Nagar | Rajesh Kothiyal | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 35 | Amitgram East | Satya Prakash | Independent | ||
| 36 | Amitgram West | Virendra Singh Ramola | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 37 | Manasa Devi | Vinod Nath | Independent | ||
| 38 | Indira Nagar | Rajendra Bisht | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 39 | Nehrugram | Sanjay Bisht | Independent | ||
| 40 | THDC | Pushkar Bangwal | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
Election results
[edit]The Rishikesh Municipal Corporation holds direct elections every five years in the state and the latest elections were those held in the year 2025.[3]
Mayoral
[edit]| Year | No. of Wards | Winner | Runner Up | Margin | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| 2025 | 40 | Bharatiya Janata Party | Shambhu Paswan | 23,998 | 41.38 | Independent | Dinesh Chandra | 20,978 | 36.17 | 3,020 | ||
Ward-wise
[edit]2025
[edit]| Party | Won | +/− | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 18 |  3
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| Independents | 16 | 
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| Indian National Congress | 6 |  3
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| Total | 40 | ||
References
[edit]- ^ "BJP wins Rishikesh, Rudrapur mayor seats, likely to clinch Doon". The Times of India. 20 November 2018. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
- ^ "Who is Shambhu Paswan who has been elected as the Mayor of Rishikesh?". NDTV (in Hindi). Retrieved 26 January 2025.
- ^ a b "SEC Uttarakhand Election Result Portal 2025". SEC Uttarakhand (in Hindi). Retrieved 28 January 2025.
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