New Delhi:
After defeating the Congress in the assembly and Lok Sabha elections in Chhattisgarh, in the municipal elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party also won all the 10 posts of the mayor by cleaning the soup. Officials of the State Election Commission said that the ruling party BJP has won the post of Mayor in all 10 municipal corporations and 35 municipal councils and 81 nagar panchayats.
Counting was held on Saturday for the general elections held in 10 municipal corporations, 49 municipal councils and 114 nagar panchayats of the state.
Officials said that the opposition party Congress won the post of president in eight municipal councils and 22 nagar panchayats, while the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), a Nagar Palika Parishad and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), the post of president in a Nagar Panchayat But has won.
Independent candidates won the post of president in five municipal councils and 10 Nagar Panchayats. According to the trends, the BJP has won in most wards or is ahead.
Appreciating the BJP’s performance in the municipal elections, Chief Minister Vishnudev Sai called it a historic day and said that it will be mentioned in golden letters in the political history of Chhattisgarh.
Sai said, “Today is historic for BJP and Chhattisgarh government. This will be mentioned in golden letters in the political history of Chhattisgarh, as the BJP has registered a historic victory in the municipal elections. ”
He said that the people and voters of Chhattisgarh have expressed confidence in the BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the guarantee of the Prime Minister and the development works of the state government, for which they express their gratitude.
The Chief Minister said, “Congress makes promises but does not fulfill them later, but BJP will fulfill its promises.”
He said, “Congress has killed democracy by conducting indirect elections for the post of Mayor (last time in 2019-2020). Congress candidate who became the mayor of Raipur through the indirect election (referring to Congress leader Aijaz Dhebar), this time lost the election of a councilor from a ward in Raipur.
Sai said that in Raigad Municipal Corporation, the party had fielded Jeevvardhan Chauhan, who sold tea for the post of Mayor and he has registered a historic victory.
In the last (2019-2020) municipal elections, the then ruling Congress in the state captured the posts of Mayor in all these 10 municipal corporations.
Last time the election of Mayor posts and Municipality Councils and Chairman of Nagar Panchayats was held indirectly, according to which the public had chosen the councilors directly and then the elected councilors from them to the middle of the municipal corporations and the presidents of other municipal bodies. Had held an election.
This indirect law system was started by the then Bhupesh Baghel government in 2019. However, this time the Sai government restored the previous system of direct election, according to which people voted directly to choose the mayor and presidents of the municipal bodies.
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