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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 27 January 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.
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]
S. No. | Name | Term | Party | |||
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1 | Anita Mamgain | 2 December 2018 | 3 December 2023 | 5 years, 1 day | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
Administrator | 3 December 2023 | 26 January 2025 | 1 year, 55 days | Government of Uttarakhand | ||
2 | Shambhu Paswan | 27 January 2025 | Incumbent | 6 days | Bharatiya Janata Party |
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 | |
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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 |
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]
Year | No. of Wards | Winner | Runner Up | Margin | ||||||||
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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 |
Party | Won | +/− | |
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Bharatiya Janata Party | 18 | ![]() | |
Independents | 16 | ![]() | |
Indian National Congress | 6 | ![]() | |
Total | 40 | ||
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