Big Win For BJP In UP Local Body Polls, Setback For Akhilesh Yadav

Lucknow:

The BJP is about for a large victory in native physique elections in Uttar Pradesh, in a giant setback for Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Occasion. The BJP has surged forward with a projection of successful over 60 seats within the zila panchayat chairperson election the place 75 seats are at stake. Mr Yadav’s get together is forecast to win solely six seats.

As compared, again in the identical election in 2016, Mr Yadav’s get together took 60 of the 75 seats. These analysing the elections, nonetheless, say the native physique polls are unlikely to be any indicator of which path the wind will blow within the meeting election subsequent yr, which will even function an final take a look at for Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath of the BJP. But, the native physique elections are being keenly watched.

Samajwadi Occasion staff who held a avenue protest at the moment alleging rigging within the native physique election in Prayagraj, previously Allahabad, had been met with police baton cost.

“The BJP has received 67 out of 75 district panchayat chairperson seats. We’ll win 2022 meeting elections additionally,” UP BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh informed information company ANI.

Twenty-one BJP candidates and one from Samajwadi Occasion obtained elected unopposed earlier. Uttar Pradesh has some 3,000 zila panchayat members. This election will select chairpersons for the state’s 75 districts.

Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Occasion didn’t combat the native physique polls.

Leaders getting elected unopposed in native physique elections in UP will not be new. In 2016, half of the 60 seats that Samajwadi Occasion received within the zila panchayat chairperson polls had been elected unopposed. Mr Yadav was the Chief Minister then. A yr later, BJP swept the state within the meeting election.