Voting began on Sunday morning for the bypolls to five municipal wards in Delhi, results of which are likely to have an impact on the 2022 civic elections. Polling began at 7:30 am amid tight security arrangements.
The The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won over 290 seats out of the total 576 seats in 144 wards across six civic bodies - Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot, Vadodara, Bhavnagar and Jamnagar. The BJP ruled all these civic bodies for last several terms. Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani thanked voters for their trust in BJP after the party's victory in civic polls. "We will work hard to prove the voters' trust in us. Anti-incumbency doesn't apply to Gujarat," he said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday thanked Gujarat after BJP registered a massive victory in the municipal corporation election. Taking to Twitter, PM Modi said results clearly show unwavering faith people have towards politics of development and good governance.
The State Election Commission (SEC) has said an average 46.08 per cent turnout was registered during voting. Ahmedabad recorded the lowest turnout of 42.51 per cent, while Jamnagar saw the highest turnout of 53.38 per cent, followed by 50.72 per cent in Rajkot, 49.46 per cent in Bhavnagar, 47.84 per cent in Vadodara and 47.14 per cent in Surat. Of the total 1.14 crore voters registered in these major cities of Gujarat, 52.83 lakh had cast their ballots.
Counting of votes in all the six municipal corporation is under way in Gujarat. Even as the BJP aims to retain power in all urban civic bodies, the Congress is confident of a good show.
The Aam Aadmi Party has claimed it would be an effective alternative to the BJP and Congress, while Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM will make its local bodies poll debut having fielded 21 candidates in six wards in Ahmedabad.
Out of the total candidates, 2,832 are contesting as independents, 2,037 are of the ruling Congress while 1,569 are Akali Dal nominees.
The Congress has formed its board in 48 urban local bodies in Rajasthan while the BJP got 37 among the 90 that went to the polls for which results were declared on Sunday.
The incident occured when Badal was accompanying Akali candidates for filing of nomination papers for the February 14 civic polls.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said the state government has approved a proposal to separate the Bally Municipality from Howrah Municipal Corporation and a bill will soon be introduced in the Assembly in this connection.
The final tally according to the state Election Commission shows that when it comes to actual seats won, the ruling Left has the edge in the grassroots, block, district panchayat and the Corporation, while the Congress-led UDF is ahead by a whisker at the municipality level.
The ruling CPI(M)-led LDF has made inroads in UDF strongholds in central Kerala wresting power in Kottayam and Idukki district panchayats and winning several municipalities and panchayats in the civic polls.
Ernakulam reported 77.02 per cent voterturnout, Thrissur 74.92 per cent,Palakkad 77.83 per cent. The two corporations - Kochi and Thrissur - recorded 61.90 and 63.62 per cent respectively.
TRS candidate Meena Upender Reddy was declared elected with a majority of 782 votes over her nearest rival Prasanna Naidu of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The massive efforts put in by the Bhartiya Janata Party in galvanising its vote base with the dazzle of senior leaders, has paid rich dividends. Even though the BJP manages to become the third largest party in the civic polls, the fact that its seat tally is less than 10% (3 - 4 seat) of the AIMIM, it's clear that BJP will emerge as the major opposition party in Telangana Assembly polls in due course.
Elections to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) will be held on December 1. The counting of votes for the poll would be taken up on December 4. There are 150 wards in all in the corporation, and the mayor’s post is reserved for a woman this time.
Elections to the GHMC will be held on December 1. The counting of votes for the poll would be taken up on December 4. There are 150 wards in all in the corporation, and the mayor’s post is reserved for a woman this time.
Hyderabad is considered a bastion of the Owaisi family. Asaduddin Owaisi is representing Hyderabad in the Lok Sabha since 2004. Between 1984 and 2004, his father Salahuddin Owaisi won every general election from the seat.
The Telangana unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday released its election manifesto for the upcoming Hyderabad civic polls in which many promises have been made ranging from free electricity to free water. The “GHMC 2020 manifesto” was released by former Maharashtra chief minister and Bihar election in-charge, Devendra Fadnavis, in Hyderabad.
In a setback to Congress ahead of the December 1 Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections, party leader and former city Mayor Banda Karthika Reddy on Wednesday joined the BJP, even as major partiesannounced the names of their candidates for the poll. Karthika Reddy, who served as Mayor before the formation of Telangana, joined BJP in the presence of the party's National General Secretary Bhupender Yadav.
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