Gujarat local body poll results in 2021: BJP hopes to continue its hot streak before the 2022 elections
New Delhi:
The ruling BJP made early gains in Gujarat’s municipal elections, leading in most of the 81 municipalities that voted on Sunday and establishing a large gap with the closest rival Congress in district panchayats and taluka panchayats. The party hopes to continue its hot streak in local body polls held in recent weeks in Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state, ahead of elections next year.
The BJP was ahead in 54 of 81 municipalities as votes were counted, with Congress winning in two and Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) opening its account with one seat.
Out of 31 district panchayats, the BJP leads in 12 and others have yet to register. The BJP is in the lead in 51 of 231 taluka panchayats, with Congress ahead in seven.
AAP is ahead in some district panchayat seats in Bhavnagar and Amreli.
Out of a total of 8,474 seats involved, the elections were held in 8,235 seats, while the rest were unopposed.
Last week, the BJP swept the polls of the municipal corporations of Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot, Vadodara, Bhavnagar and Jamnagar, winning 483 out of 576 seats. AAP registered its presence in Surat by winning 27 seats at the expense of Congress, which failed to win any in that city.
Arvind Kejriwal, reveling in AAP’s performance, indicated that he was preparing his party for the 2022 Gujarat assembly elections.
On his victory trip to Surat on Thursday, Kejriwal said the AAP would seek the votes of the people of the state in the upcoming assembly elections based on the performance of the party’s 27 newly elected corporations.
The Gujarat BJP sought to give the head of the AAP a reality check. BJP head of state CR Patil mocked that Kejriwal was on tour to celebrate the large number of AAP candidates who had lost their electoral deposits, which are lost when a candidate does not get a sixth of the total vote. valid.
Asaduddin Owaisi’s AAP and AIMIM also contested in polls by local Gujarat bodies, in addition to traditional rivals BJP and Congress. AIMIM ran candidates in minority-dominated seats in the Modasa and Bharuch municipalities. He also contested in Godhra Township.
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