PM Modi congratulates BJP workers, candidates for sweeping municipal polls in UP

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday congratulated the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP for its massive win in the Uttar Pradesh urban local body polls lauding Chief Minister Yogi Adityanaths leadershipIn a major shot in the arm of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanaths government the BJP swept the UP urban local body polls winning the Mayoral seats of all the 17 municipal corporations besides 90 posts of municipality chairman and over 600 wardsIn a tweet PM Modi said Many congratulations to all the workers and candidates of BJP4UPfor this grand victory in the civic elections This success expresses the support of people for the unprecedented development taking place in the state under the leadership of myogiadityanathjiMeanwhile Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday congratulated the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP for its resounding win in the Uttar Pradesh urban local body pollsIn a tweet Amit Shah said Congratulations to all the karyakartas Bhupendraupbjp ji and the entire team on the stupendous performance of the BJP in the local body elections in Uttar Pradesh This is a stamp on the public welfare works of Vijay narendramodi jis government under the guidance of myogiadityanath ji Heartfelt gratitude to the people for their continuous faith in BJPIt is noteworthy that Chief Minister Yogi had fervently appealed to the people to vote for the BJP candidates to add the third engine to the doubleengine government in the state during his marathon campaigningOut of the 17 mayoral candidates fielded by the BJP 14 were new while the party had placed bets on the outgoing mayors in Kanpur Bareilly and MoradabadAlso Read Victory of politics that unites country Priyanka Gandhi on Karnataka resultsThe party won all 17 seats as people voted for the developmental works being carried out by the Yogi GovernmentFour BJP candidates achieved the distinction of becoming mayors for the second timeWhile Pramila Pandey from Kanpur Vinod Agarwal from Moradabad and Umesh Gautam Anwarat from Bareilly became the mayor for the second time in a row Harikant Ahluwalia has been the mayor of Meerut earlier alsoBJPs Bihari Lal was the first to win in Jhansi He got a total of 123503 votes Other candidates who contested the election lost even their depositsCM Yogi Adityanath held 50 rallies to campaign for BJP candidates in the municipal electionsThe Chief Minister held public meetings in 10 municipal corporation areas falling under 9 divisionsYogi Adityanath held a total of 28 rallies in the first phase which included participating in a rally cum conference at four places in Gorakhpur three in Lucknow and two in VaranasiHeld on May 11 for seven municipal corporations of nine divisionsCM Yogi held 22 rallies and public meetings twice in AyodhyaThis 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