The Bharatiya Janata Party suffered setbacks in its strongholds like Ayodhya, Varanasi, Gorakhpur and Lucknow in the recently held Uttar Pr...
The Bharatiya Janata Party suffered setbacks in its strongholds like Ayodhya, Varanasi, Gorakhpur and Lucknow in the recently held Uttar Pradesh local body elections, the Hindustan Times reported on Wednesday. In the overall results too, the ruling BJP was locked in a close fight with the Samajwadi Party.
Over 8.69 lakh posts were up for grabs in the polls held in four phases ending on April 29. The elections were held for local body positions at the village level (gram panchayat), block level (kshetra panchayat) and district level (zila panchayat). While the elections were not held on party symbols, political outfits backed respective candidates and are claiming their victories on that basis. The counting for the elections, which began on May 2, was still underway.
Trends and results available on Tuesday evening showed that out of 3,050 zila panchayat wards, the Samajwadi Party bagged 760 of them, the BJP got 719 and the Bahujan Samaj Party won in 381. The Congress secured victories in 76 district-level wards, while Independents and smaller parties won 1,114 of them, the Hindustan Times reported.
In Varanasi, the Lok Sabha constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP could win only eight of the 40 zila panchayat seats, while the Samajwadi Party won...
