BJP wins UP Civic polls,Rahul Gandhi faces embarrassment

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Fri, Dec 01, 2017, 06:26 PM

BJP wins UP Civic polls,Rahul Gandhi faces embarrassment

Lucknow Dec 1: Uttar Pradesh CM yogi Adityanath has emerged victorious in the first test he has faced after becoming the state chief minister.The BJP has won 14 mayoral seats in the Uttar Pradesh civic polls.on the other hand Mayawati party, BSP has won two seats .

BJP's mayor candidates have won in Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Ghaziabad, Bareilly, Agra, Firozabad, Ayodhya, Mathura, Lucknow, Kanpur, Saharanpur Jhansi and Bareilly, and Moradabad .BSP has won in Aligarh and Meerut.

Earlier the civic polls were held in 3 phases .and politicl experts termed the polls as the test for UP CM Yogi's performance in past 7 months.



BJP has won the Amethi Nagar Panchayat elections. Amethi is the constituency of Congress Vice-president Rahul Gandhi and is considered a bastion of the party.In 2012, the BJP had won 10 out of 12 mayoral seats in 2012.

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had congratulated the party and tweeted that "Congratulations to people of Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister @myogiadityanath ji, & BJP Karyakartas @BJP4UP on an emphatic victory and clean sweep by the BJP in the UPCivicPolls2017 The resounding BJP victory is reiteration of our commitment for honest, clean & peoples' governance".