The BJP on Saturday registered a resounding victory in Uttar Pradesh’s Urban Local Body polls, winning or leading all the 17 Mayoral seats, and winning or leading in a majority of 1,420 councillors seats in Municipal Corporations, and member seats across Nagar Panchayats and Nagar Palika Parishads.
As per the latest data available, the BJP won 30 out of 544 Nagar Panchayat chairman seats and was leading in more than 200. Of 1,420 councillors seats in Municipal Corporations, the party won or was leading in more than half the seats. In the Prayagraj Municipal Corporation, out of 100 seats whose results have been declared, the BJP won 56, Samajwadi Party (SP) 16, Independents 19, the Congress won four seats, and AIMIM and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) won two seats each.
The saffron party candidate Bihari Lal Arya from Jhansi became the Mayor after winning with a margin of over 83,000 votes. In Prayagraj, the BJP’s Ganesh Kesarwani defeated the SP’s Ajay Srivastava by a thumping margin of over one lakh votes.
