U.P. urban body polls | BJP wins 813 seats of corporators, Samajwadi Party bags 191
The Hindu
The ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh has 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 85.
The ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh has 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 85.
According to the State Election Commission (SEC), Samajwadi Party's Wasim (4,215 votes) defeated BJP's Rupesh (4,151 votes) for the post of Nagar Panchayat chairperson of Khetasarai in Jaunpur district. The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) candidate in the poll fray stood third.
The BJP on Saturday registered win 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.
However, it was a mixed bag for the other local bodies, with independent candidates also registering wins. In all, there are 760 urban local bodies in 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh.
According to the SEC, 191 Samajwadi Party (SP) candidates won as corporators in the state, followed by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) with 85, Congress 77, AIMIM 19, Rashtriya Lok Dal 10, Aam Aadmi Party eight, and Azad Samaj Party (Kanshiram) five, while the Indian Union Muslim League, Jan Adhikar Party, Peace Party and the NISHAD party clinched one seat each.
In the category of the chairperson of Nagar Palika Parishad, the BJP won 89 out of 199 posts and independent candidates won 41. The Samajwadi Party won 35 seats, BSP 16, RLD seven, Congress four and the AAP and the AIMIM won three seats each. BJP ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) won one seat.
The electoral battle for members of Nagar Palika Parishad saw independent candidates bagging 3,130 out of 5,327 posts (58.76 per cent). The BJP stood a distant second with 1,360 seats, followed by the SP with 425, BSP 191, Congress 91, RLD 40, AIMIM 33 and AAP 30.
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