BJP wins five mayoral seats out of 11, leads in two; AAP and Cong bag one each

In the mayoral elections held in 11 municipal corporations in Madhya Pradesh the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP emerged victorious at five places so far on Sunday evening while the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party AAP each bagged the post in two other citiesThe counting of votes for the top civic post in still on in four other places and as per the latest trends the BJP and Congress were leading in two municipal corporations each officials said The BJP won the mayoral elections in Burhanpur Satna Khandwa Sagar and Ujjain the Congress in Chhindwara while the Arvind Kejriwalled AAP which contested the civic polls in MP for the first time bagged the post in Singrauli The results has brought some respite for the opposition Congress with its win in Chhindwara and leads in two other placesIn the last elections the party had failed to win not even one out of the total 16 corporations in the state A Congress leader confirmed that their party had not won even a single mayoral election in the state last time The local bodies elections in the state for 413 municipalities including 16 Nagar Palika Nigam 99 Nagar Palika Parishad and 298 Nagar Parishad were held in two phases on July 6 and 13Under the first phase polling was held in 11 municipal corporations 36 nagar palikas and 86 nagar parishads The counting of votes for these elections began at 9 am on Sunday In the first phase elections for the post of mayor were held in Burhanpur Satna Khandwa Sagar Singrauli Jabalpur Gwalior Chhindwara Indore and Bhopal BJP candidates Madhuri Patel Yogesh Tamarkar Amrita Amar Yadav Sangeeta Tiwari and Mukesh Tatwal emerged victorious in the mayoral elections to Burhanpur Satna Khandwa Sagar and Ujjain respectively while AAP candidate Rani Agrawal won the city Singrauli citys top post officials said Congress won the mayoral post in Chhindwara with its candidate Vikram Ahaka defeating his rival Anand Dhurve by 3547 votesThis is after a gap of 18 years that the Congress won Chhindwara civic election top post Chhindwara is the home turf of state Congress president and former chief minister Kamal Nath He had been elected from the Chhindwara Lok Sabha constituency nine times According to the officials Congress candidates were leading in two municipal corporations Jabalpur and Gwalior Patel Tamarkar Yadav Tiwari and Tatwal defeated their nearest rivals from the Congress Shahnaz Ansari Siddharth Kushwaha Asha Mishra Nidhi Jain and Mahesh Parmar by a margin of 542 24916 19763 12665 and 736 votes respectively in Burhanpur Satna Khandwa Sagar and Ujjain In Singrauli AAP candidate Rani Agrawal defeated her nearest BJP rival Chandrapratap Vishwakarma by a margin of 9231 votes This is the first time that the Arvind Kejriwalled AAP is contesting civic elections in MPKejriwal had recently held a roadshow in support of Agrawal BJP candidates Pushyamitra Bhargava and Malti Rai have established decisive leads of over 1 lakh and 51000 votes respectively over their nearest Congress rivals Sanjay Shukla and Vibha Patel in Indore and Bhopal Congress candidates Jagat Bahadur Singh and Shobha Shikarwar were leading over their BJP rivals Jitendra Jamdar and Suman Sharma by handsome margins of 43694 and 22867 votes in Jabalpur and Gwalior respectively These two leads might come as a morale booster to the Congress It is after 57 long years that the party is heading to win Gwalior mayoral post a Congress leader saidIf the Congress wins Gwalior the image of two Union ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia and Narendra Tomar would take a beating political observers said If it happens it would give ammunition to the Congress to target Scindia The rebellion in 2020 by Scindia who was then with the Congress had resulted in the collapse of the Kamal Nathled government in the state within 15 months of coming to power Nath had to resign as the chief minister in March 2020 as the party lost majority in the House following the resignation of 22 party MLAs who were Scindia loyalists Scindia and his followers had later joined the BJP The Congress also expressed confidence of winning in Jabalpur saying that it would clinch the post there after a gap of 18 yearsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever