Chhattisgarh: Local bodies elections
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Urban civic bodies
The Times of India Jan 01 2016
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Within days of the saffron juggernaut stopping in Madhya Pradesh civic polls owing to a resurgent Congress, BJP suffered a huge jolt in adjoining Chhattisgarh where Congress bagged seven out of 11 urban civic bodies.
The results were particularly embarrass ing for BJP as urban areas form the party's core support base. The civic elections were held on December 28. Congress also retained the crucial mayoral post in Bhilai Municipal Corporation. In MP civic body polls, Congress had wrested five of the eight urban civic body seats.
The polls were held in one municipal corporation, four municipal councils and six nagar panchayats. Of six nagar panchayat s, BJP and Congress won three each with the ruling party losing control over two it earlier held.
The biggest setback for BJP was in Bhilai, where it failed to wrest control of the 70 wards from Congress, which retained the mayoral post with its 27-year-old candidate Devendra Yadav inflicting a heavy defeat on his BJP rival Vidya Ratan Bhasin.
2019, Urban body polls: Cong ahead
Dec 24, 2019: The The Times Of India
RAIPUR: The ruling Congress won 923 wards in 151 urban local bodies in Chhattisgarh, while the BJP managed to get 814 wards, a poll official said.
The polls were held on December 21 and results of 2,032 wards were declared, while counting was underway in the remaining 799 wards, the official said.
Of the 2032, the Congress won 923, the BJP 814, the Janata Congress Chhattisgarh (J) of Ajit Jogi 17, while Independents were elected in 278 wards, the official said. The polls were held in 10 municipal corporations, 38 municipal councils and 103 nagar panchayat.
"In six wards, corporators were elected unopposed, while three wards received no nominations. In two places, all nominations were withdrawn and in one place polls were postponed after the death of a candidate,", the official informed.
Following these developments, polling was held to elect corporators in 2831 wards, he added.
Of the 70 wards in Raipur Municipal Corporation, the BJP has so far won 23, the Congress 22 with Independents emerging winners in two wards.
As per the new rules, mayors and chairpersons of urban bodies will be elected by corporators and not directly by people.
"The results show the Congress has registered victory in more wards than the BJP, and we are comfortably leading in several others. Congress will have the maximum number of mayors and chairpersons in the state's urban bodies," said Chhattisgarh Congress spokesperson Shailesh Nitin Trivedi.
However, state BJP chief Vikram Usendi said results were an indication that the Bhupesh Baghel government had become unpopular in just one year.
