BJP sweeps Gujarat municipal polls, takes all 15 corporations

Ahmedabad: The governing BJP yet again established its supremacy successful Gujarat connected Tuesday, sweeping each 15 municipal corporations and 78 of the 84 municipalities, reiterating its implicit dominance successful cities and towns.It besides performed powerfully successful agrarian regions, winning 33 of the 34 territory panchayats and 220 of the 260 taluka panchayats. AAP won the Narmada territory panchayat, portion Congress took the Khadia spot successful Ahmedabad, a BJP stronghold for 46 years.BJP swept large cities including Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Jamnagar and Bhavnagar cities portion making debuting successful 9 recently formed municipal corporations - Navsari, Gandhidham, Morbi, Vapi, Anand, Nadiad, Mehsana, Porbandar and Surendranagar.

Of the full 1,044 seats successful 15 cities, BJP won a staggering 937, Congress 95, and AAP and others got six seats each. Most of AAP's gains arsenic a debutant successful Surat metropolis successful 2021, erstwhile it won 27 seats retired of 120, were reversed arsenic its tally fell to conscionable 4 seats successful a azygous ward.In the towns, BJP won 78 of the 84 municipalities for which polls were held portion Congress won six. In the past elections, successful 2021, 81 municipalities had gone to polls, with BJP winning 75, Congress 4 and others two.

"The enslaved betwixt Gujarat and BJP gets adjacent stronger! Gratitude to the radical of Gujarat for a sweeping mandate successful the mahanagarpalika, nagar palika, taluka panchayat and zilla panchayat elections held crossed the state," PM Modi tweeted.Once the results were in, Aam Aadmi Party and Congress some staked assertion arsenic the No. 2 enactment successful Gujarat.