Up until now, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has recorded 10 wins in the Uttar Pradesh (UP) urban local body polls. Leading in all 17 municipal corporations, the party is set to continue its dominance in the municipal corporations.
Hailing the victory, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said, "Compared to 2017 the BJP has won more than double seats in urban local body polls this year."
Deputy CM Brijesh Pathak said, "The BJP is on course to win all 17 local bodies. Our party has also performed very well in Nagar Nikay and Nagar Panchayat elections. I thank the people for reposing their electoral trust in us and assure them that the BJP will continue to take its welfare policies to the last man under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi."
So far, the party has won mayoral seats in Ayodhya, Jhansi, Bareilly, Mathura-Vrindavan, Moradabad, Saharanpur, Prayagraj, Aligarh, Shahjahanpur, Ghaziabad – as per the UP state election commission.
The UP CM had slammed Samajwadi Party while campaigning. He had alleged that those who were responsible for riots and curfews in Kanpur were the SP’s candidates in the urban local body polls.
Pathak congratulated the newly elected mayors and councilors, in a tweet on Saturday.
The counting of votes is underway and results for mayors and corporators in 17 municipal corporations, and for chairpersons and members of nagar palika parishads as well as nagar panchayats, will be declared by today.
The polls were held in two phases – on May 4 and May 11. According to data by the Election Commission, around 53 percent of voters cast their votes out of the total 4.32 crore who were eligible.
BJP’s Umesh Gautam retained his seat in Bareilly while Ajay Kumar won in Saharanpur. Girishpati Tripathi won from Ayodhya and Vinod Agarwal won the seat from Mathura. Bihari Lal Arya won the mayoral election from Jhansi after winning with a margin of over 83,000 votes.
On Saturday, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya thanked the people in the state for BJP’s victory.
(With inputs from Indian Express and Hindustan Times.)
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