UP Urban Local Body polls: In a first, BJP to form boards on its own in 13 municipal corporations of Uttar Pradesh

UP Urban Local Body polls: The Bharatiya Janata Party that registered a resounding victory in Uttar Pradesh’s Urban Local Body polls, would form boards on its own in 13 municipal corporations of the state. Notably, BJP won all 17 mayoral posts in the urban local bodies elections in Uttar Pradesh.

Before the elections, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath appealed to the masses to vote for the BJP mayoral candidates and elect a BJP board in municipal corporations. His appeal seems to have worked well. Opposition parties were kept out completely from some of the boards while all the 17 mayors were from the party. For instance, in Jhansi and the newly created Shahjahanpur Municipal Corporation, not a single Samajwadi Party councillor won.

Thumping victory for BJP

In UP’s Urban Local Body polls, BJP councillors constitute over 50% of the board in 13 of 17 municipal corporations in the state. The saffron party won 80 and 63 councillor seats out of 110 seats each in Lucknow and Kanpur, respectively. Some other seats that BJP candidates won out of 100 each include Varanasi (63), Ghaziabad (66), Prayagraj (56) and Agra (58). The party also won 42 and 51 councillor seats out of 80 seats each in Gorakhpur and Bareilly, respectively.

Meanwhile, the Samajwadi Party (SP) was reduced to zero seats in both Jhansi and Shahjahanpur Municipal Corporations. People preferred independent candidates to that of SP, BSP and the Congress on many seats. It is worth noting that BSP councillor candidates drew a blank in Kanpur, Varanasi and Bareilly while Congress candidates could not even open their accounts in Ayodhya and Saharanpur.

BJP wins 813 of 1,420 seats

According to State Election Commission (SEC), the ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh won 813 out of the 1,420 seats in the corporators category in the state’s urban local body polls, while the opposition Samajwadi Party bagged 191 and the Bahujan Samaj Party won 85.

The BJP won all the 17 mayoral seats in the state  — Varanasi, Lucknow, Ayodhya, Jhansi, Bareilly, Mathura-Vrindavan, Moradabad, Saharanpur, Prayagraj, Aligarh, Shahjahanpur, Ghaziabad, Agra, Kanpur, Gorakhpur, Firozabad and Meerut.

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