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The results of 17 municipal corporations of Uttar Pradesh have come. BJP has done a clean sweep on all the seats. In Prayagraj, Ghaziabad, Kanpur, Lucknow, Mathura-Vrindavan and Agra, more than 1 lakh have defeated the opposition from inside. Even the accounts of SP, BSP and Congress were not opened. In Gorakhpur, the SP candidate created ruckus after the result came out. After this, SP supremo Akhilesh Yadav tweeted and demanded re-counting.
Shahjahanpur has got the first Mayor of BJP. BJP’s mayoral candidate Pramila Pandey has become mayor for the second time in Kanpur Municipal Corporation. He has won by more than 2 lakh votes. BJP’s Sushma Kharkwal has defeated SP’s Vandana Mishra by 204161 votes in Lucknow.
BJP Mayor candidate from Ghaziabad Sunita Dayal has won by 2.87 lakh votes. In Prayagraj, BJP’s Umesh Chandra Ganesh Kesarwani has defeated SP candidate Ajay Kumar Srivastava by 1 lakh 29 thousand 394 votes. Ajay Kumar got 1 lakh 62 thousand 42 votes. A total of 494344 votes were cast here.
Results of Mayor candidate in 17 Municipal Corporation…
| seat | live | lost |
| Gorakhpur | B J P | SP |
| Prayagraj | B J P | SP |
| Varanasi | B J P | Congress |
| Meerut | B J P | AIMIM |
| Firozabad | B J P | SP |
| Bareilly | B J P | Independent |
| Aligarh | B J P | SP |
| Ghaziabad | B J P | BSP |
| Ayodhya | B J P | SP |
| Shahjahanpur | B J P | SP |
| Kanpur | B J P | SP |
| Jhansi | B J P | Congress |
| Lucknow | B J P | SP |
| Agra | B J P | BSP |
| Moradabad | B J P | Congress |
| Saharanpur | B J P | BSP |
| Mathura-Vrindavan | B J P | SP |
Now the faces of victory…
SP candidate Kajal Nishad’s uproar in Gorakhpur on defeat
In Gorakhpur, SP candidate Kajal Nishad created ruckus after her defeat. Kajal Nishad said, “How does this data get changed in the computer. How do I believe that this is a fair election? How do I believe that there is no rigging? Officials should explain to me.” Akhilesh Yadav has also demanded re-counting.
In Gorakhpur, SP candidate Kajal Nishad created ruckus raising questions on counting.
Akhilesh tweeted, “The Election Commission should take immediate cognizance of the news of rigged counting of votes in Gorakhpur and check the veracity of the counting of votes and get a re-counting done if found wrong.”
SP supporters are alleging rigging in the counting of votes. There was an argument between the SP leader and Kajal Nishad with the district officials. Kajal Nishad’s supporter was dragged out by the police. After this the matter got heated.
150 votes cast at Minister Nandi’s booth in Prayagraj
In Prayagraj, cabinet minister Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi’s ward 80 Mohtsimganj suffered a humiliating defeat for the BJP. Independent candidate Kusum Lata Gupta has won from this ward by 1674 votes. While BJP candidate Vijay Vaish got 1275 votes. BJP got only 150 votes in booth number 932 of Nandi. Abhilasha Gupta, wife of the outgoing mayor and minister Nandi, also cast her vote at the same booth.
As soon as the victory of SP candidate Nisha from Ward 102 Begumpurwa of Kanpur was announced, her husband Akil Sanu burst into tears. Akil told that his wife got 2152 votes. She has won by 471 votes.
LIVE UPDATES…
- Agra BJP’s mayoral candidate Hemlata Diwakar has won. BSP candidate Dr. has defeated Lata Valmiki.
- Meerut BJP mayoral candidate Harikant Ahluwalia has won. Harikant has defeated SP’s Seema.
- Moradabad BJP’s Vinod Agarwal has won. He has got 1,21,415 votes. Haji Rizwan Qureshi of INC has been defeated by 3589 votes.
- Lucknow BJP Mayor candidate Sushma Kharwal has won. He has defeated SP candidate Vandana Mishra.
- Prayagraj BJP candidate Umesh Chandra Ganesh Kesarwani has defeated SP candidate Ajay Kumar Srivastava by 1 lakh 29 thousand 394 votes. Ajay Kumar got 1 lakh 62 thousand 42 votes. A total of 494344 votes were cast here.
- Ghaziabad From BJP Mayor candidate Sunita Dayal has won by 2 lakh 87 thousand votes.
- from Aligarh Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Prashant Singhal wins. Singhal has got 60902 votes. Supporters raised slogans of Jai Jai Shri Ram and Vande Mataram.
- Kanpur BJP candidate Pramila Pandey has defeated SP’s Vandana Vajpayee.
- Firozabad BJP candidate Kamini Rathore defeated SP candidate Mushroom Fathima by 26961 votes.
- Bareilly Dr. Umesh Gautam has been elected mayor of the BJP for the second time on the mayor’s seat. He has defeated the independent candidate Dr. IS Tomar.
- Shahjahanpur From BJP candidate Archana Verma has won by 30256 votes. Archana got 80740 votes, while Congress got 50484, SP 20144 and BSP got 5573 votes.
- Gorakhpur BJP candidate Dr. Manglesh Srivastava has defeated SP candidate Kajal Nishad by 67,026 votes. Manglesh Srivastava got 2,14,983 votes and Kajal Nishad got 1,47,957 votes.
- Jhansi BJP’s mayoral candidate Bihari Lal won by more than 80 thousand votes. Arvind Kumar Bablu of Congress is on the second number.
- in Ayodhya BJP candidate Girish Pati Tiwari has defeated SP.
- Mathura From BJP Mayor candidate Vinod Agarwal has won. SP remained on the second number.
- Varanasi BJP’s mayoral candidate Ashok Tiwari has won. Ashok Tiwari has defeated Omprakash Singh of SP with a huge margin.
- Saharanpur Dr. Ajay Singh of BJP defeated Khadija Masood of BSP by 8850 votes.
BJP has got the maximum number of mayors from 2 elections.
Now read how the mayoral seat increased from 12 to 17 in the last 2 civic elections…
2012: Independents won in Bareilly and Prayagraj, BJP mayors were elected elsewhere
In 2012, the civic elections were contested on 12 mayor seats. BJP was successful in saving its stronghold. Mayor of BJP was elected on 10 seats. While 2 seats were taken by independent candidates in their account. These included Dr. IS Tomar of Bareilly and Abhilasha, wife of Nand Gopal Gupta ‘Nandi’ in Prayagraj. The BJP had won the mayoral posts in Meerut, Ghaziabad, Moradabad, Aligarh, Agra, Kanpur Nagar, Jhansi, Lucknow, Gorakhpur and Varanasi.
2017: BSP in Aligarh and Meerut, rest in BJP’s court
After this, four more Municipal Corporation areas were created, Mathura, Firozabad, Faizabad and Saharanpur, where civic elections were held for the first time in 2017. In this way the total seats became 16. In the 2017 elections, again the flag of BJP was hoisted. BJP candidates won 14 seats. Whereas in Meerut and Aligarh, BSP’s mayoral candidates won. Shahjahanpur has also been made a municipal corporation area in the 2023 civic body elections. Now there are total 17 municipal corporation seats in UP.
