Rishikesh Municipal Corporation

Rishikesh Municipal Corporation ऋषिकेश नगर निगम Rishikesh Nagar Nigam
Unicameral Legislature
Type
Type	Municipal Corporation
Leadership
Mayor	Shambhu Paswan, BJP since 7 February 2025
Municipal Commissioner	G. C. Gurwant, PCS
Structure
Seats	40
Political groups	Government (18)   BJP (18) Opposition (22)   INC (6)   IND (16)
Elections
Voting system	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

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

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	161 days	Bharatiya Janata Party

Current members

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

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

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

2025

Rishikesh Municipal Corporation

Party		Won	+/−
	Bharatiya Janata Party	18	3
	Independents	16
	Indian National Congress	6	3
Total		40

References

1. "BJP wins Rishikesh, Rudrapur mayor seats, likely to clinch Doon". The Times of India. 20 November 2018. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
2. "Who is Shambhu Paswan who has been elected as the Mayor of Rishikesh?". NDTV (in Hindi). Retrieved 26 January 2025.
3. "SEC Uttarakhand Election Result Portal 2025". SEC Uttarakhand (in Hindi). Retrieved 28 January 2025.