BJP wins all mayoral posts in Chhattisgarh's 10 municipal corporations, securing majorities in key civic bodies across the state
Bhopal: The ruling BJP has swept the civic body polls in Chhattisgarh, results of which were declared on Saturday.
The party has bagged all the mayoral posts in the ten municipal corporations in the state, setting a record in the civic body polls.
The BJP has also secured a majority in 35 out of 49 Nagar Palikas and in 84 out of 118 Nagar Parishads in the state.
Congress has secured majority in eight Nagar Palikas and 19 Nagar Parishads.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has won the Bagri Nagar Palika in Bilaspur district.
Hailing the massive victory by the party in the civic body polls, chief minister Vishnu Deo Sai said, “Today is the historic day for BJP and the BJP government in Chhattisgarh. All I can say is that this day will be written in golden letters in the political history of Chhattisgarh for achieving a historic victory in the municipal elections”.
Mr Sai has attributed the landslide victory of BJP in the civic body polls to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s strong leadership and the performance of the 13-month-old BJP government in Chhattisgarh.
The BJP has won the mayoral posts in Raipur, Ambikapur, Korba, Chirmiri, Jagdalpur, Durg, Dhamtari, Bilaspur, Rajnandgaon, and Raigarh municipal corporations.
The party has recorded a landslide victory in Raipur municipal corporations and formed the urban government after a span of 15 years.
Mr Sai was leading the campaign for the party in the civic body polls.
After the results, BJP national president J P Nadda called Mr Sai and state party president Kiran Singh Deo to congratulate them for the massive victory of the party in the urban local body polls.
“This historic victory is a symbol of the unwavering faith of the people of the state on the public welfare and tribal-friendly schemes being implemented by the double-engine government under the guidance of the respective Prime Minister Narendra Modi”, Mr Nadda said in his post on X.
This was the first civic body polls fought by BJP under Mr Sai’s leadership.
Polls to the civic bodies were held on February 10.
