The results of urban local body polls in Uttar Pradesh have given a shot in the arm of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The ruling Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) has made a clean sweep in the mayoral polls of all the 17 municipal corporations.
While the opposition stalwarts had preferred to sit cozy in their homes during the campaigning, UP CM had oiled hard and reached in almost all the districts. The results have stunned the entire opposition including Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and congress in UP. Both congress and BSP stood second at three municipal corporations each while SP was in the main fray at other places.
Yogi had addressed more than 50 rallies and meetings during the 20 days campaigning for the urban body elections. Besides, he had deployed his entire cabinet in various districts to ensure victory of party candidates. Unlike Yogi, the SP Chief reached at only half a dozen places for campaigning while congress and BSP leaders did not even dare to come out.'
Shocked with the defeat the SP, Chief On Friday expressed happiness over the results of Karnataka assembly polls but kept mum on UP urban body results. He said that the results of Karnataka show the end of BJP. Congress too celebrated the victory of Karnataka at its state headquarter but did not utter a single word over the debacle in urban body polls.
One-sided game
Making it a one sided game, BJP wiped out opposition in the entire state including east, west and Bundelkhand region. Earlier in the ULB polls of 2017 BJP had won 14 out of 16 mayoral seats while BSP had been successful in Aligarh and Meeurt. This year BJP has won all the 17 corporations including the newly carved Shahjahanpur.
Besides municipal corporations, BJP’s performance has improved drastically in the 199 councils and 544 town areas also. Party has managed to occupy the post of chairman in 98 municipal councils and 204 town area committees. SP candidates have won on 59 municipal councils, BSP on 19 and congress on 7. Among the town areas, SP has won 171, BSP 51 while congress won 44. For the first time the Aam Adami Party and AIMIM has opened its account in the municipal elections.
Yogi Adityanath thanks people of UP
UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath thanked people and congratulated BJP workers on the party's massive victory in the urban local body polls and for forming a "triple-engine government" in the state.
"Hearty congratulations to all the dedicated and hardworking workers of the BJP and the people of Uttar Pradesh, who love good governance, on the massive victory of the BJP in the Uttar Pradesh municipal elections," Adityanath said in a tweet in Hindi.
"This massive victory reflects the successful guidance of respected Prime Minister Narendra Modi Ji and immense public faith in the pro-people, developmental and all-inclusive policies of the double-engine government," he added.
Defeat in assembly by-polls a double shock for SP
After facing a major setback in the urban body polls, the Samajwadi Party got another jolt after it lost both the assembly bypolls in UP. In the by elections for Suar and Chanwe assembly segments, SP candidates tasted defeat from Apna Dal, an ally of ruling BJP.
