BJP retains seven out of 11 mayoral seats in Madhya Pradesh, loses three to Congress, one to AAP

By PTI

BHOPAL: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday managed to retain seven out of the full 11 mayoral seats in Madhya Pradesh that went to polls, whereas the Congress wrested three seats from the saffron get together and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) bagged one.

The Congress termed the outcomes as “encouraging”, whereas the BJP hailed its personal efficiency within the elections as “historic”.

In the final native physique elections held in 2015, all these mayoral seats had been with the BJP.

In a tweet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his gratitude in direction of the folks for reposing their religion within the BJP within the native physique elections.

“This win is a symbol of people’s unbreakable trust in the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in the state. Congratulations to the party workers along with the winning candidates,” he mentioned in a tweet.

Assembly polls within the BJP-ruled state shall be held in 2023.

The BJP gained the mayoral elections in Burhanpur, Satna, Khandwa, Sagar, Ujjain, Indore and Bhopal, the Congress in Chhindwara, Jabalpur and Gwalior, whereas the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP, which contested the civic polls in MP for the primary time, bagged the submit in Singrauli.

Kejriwal hailed within the victory saying that it is a sign of the acceptability of AAP’s sincere politics in each nook of the nation.

The outcome with three wins may need introduced good tidings for the opposition Congress.

In the final such elections, the get together had did not win any seat out within the complete 16 firms within the state.

The Congress’s achieve has resulted within the lack of three seats to BJP within the first spherical of mayoral elections.

The grand outdated get together is hopeful of pulling off some extra victories within the second part of civic polls for the remaining 5 mayoral posts.

A Congress chief confirmed that their get together had not gained even a single mayoral election within the state final time.

The native our bodies elections within the state for 413 municipalities, together with 16 Nagar Palika Nigam, 99 Nagar Palika Parishad and 298 Nagar Parishad had been held in two phases – on July 6 and 13.

Under the primary part, polling was held in 11 municipal firms, 36 nagar palikas and 86 nagar parishads.

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The counting of votes for these elections started at 9 am on Sunday.

In the primary part, elections for the submit of mayor had been held in Burhanpur, Satna, Khandwa, Sagar, Singrauli, Jabalpur, Gwalior, Chhindwara, Indore and Bhopal.

BJP candidates Madhuri Patel, Yogesh Tamarkar, Amrita Amar Yadav, Sangeeta Tiwari, Mukesh Tatwal, Pushyamitra Bhargava and Malti Rai emerged victorious within the mayoral elections to Burhanpur, Satna, Khandwa, Sagar, Ujjain, Indore and Bhopal respectively, whereas AAP candidate Rani Agrawal gained the Singrauli metropolis’s high submit, officers mentioned.

Congress gained the mayoral submit in Chhindwara with its candidate Vikram Ahaka defeating his rival Anand Dhurve by 3,547 votes.

This is after a niche of 18 years that the Congress gained Chhindwara civic election’s high submit.

Chhindwara is the house turf of state Congress president and former chief minister Kamal Nath.

He had been elected from the Chhindwara Lok Sabha constituency 9 occasions.

Besides, Congress candidates Jagat Bahadur Singh and Shobha Shikarwar defeated their nearest rivals of the BJP – Jitendra Jamdar and Suman Sharma – by 44,339 and 28,805 votes, respectively, in Jabalpur and Gwalior.

Patel, Tamarkar, Yadav, Tiwari, Tatwal, Bhargava and Malti Rai defeated their nearest rivals from the Congress – Shahnaz Ansari, Siddharth Kushwaha, Asha Mishra, Nidhi Jain, Mahesh Parmar, Sanjay Shukla and Vibha Patel – by a margin of 542, 24,916, 19,763, 12,665, 736, 1.33 lakh and round 98,000 votes, respectively, in Burhanpur, Satna, Khandwa, Sagar, Ujjain, Indore and Bhopal, officers mentioned.

In Indore, which has earned the tag being the “cleanest city of India”, the BJP gained the election with the best variety of votes.

Bhargava polled 5,92,519 votes, whereas Shukla, a sitting Congress MLA, secured 4,59,562 votes.

Shukla was the richest mayor candidate in MP this time.

The Class 12 passout legislator and his spouse based on his affidavit personal property value Rs 170 crore, officers mentioned.

Bhargava has a legislation diploma amongst different qualification and owns property value Rs 2.31 crore.

In Singrauli, AAP candidate Rani Agrawal defeated her nearest BJP rival Chandrapratap Vishwakarma by a margin of 9,231 votes.

This is the primary time that the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP is contesting civic elections in MP.

Kejriwal had not too long ago held a roadshow in assist of Agrawal.

The two wins to the Congress in Gwalior and Jabalpur come as a morale booster to the Congress.

It is after 57 lengthy years that the get together gained Gwalior mayoral submit,” a Congress chief mentioned.

Besides, with the Congress’ victory in Gwalior, the picture of two Union ministers – Jyotiraditya Scindia and Narendra Tomar – may need taken a beating, political observers mentioned.

It in all chance would give ammunition to the Congress to focus on Scindia.

Further, the Congress has clinched Jabalpur’s high submit after a niche of 18 years.

Chief Minister Chouhan termed the BJP’s efficiency as “historic”, saying that folks from city and rural areas voted in favour of the ruling get together.

He mentioned the get together has gained over 80 per cent seats within the nagar panchayat and nagar parishad polls and likewise carried out very properly within the 11 municipal firms as properly.

Kamal Nath mentioned he was inspired with the Congress’s efficiency within the civic polls.