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BJP sweeps UP civic polls
08/07/2012 23:56:31 http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/up-civic-polls-bjp-terms-sweep-as-verdict-against-centre/articleshow/14761184.cms

NEW DELHI: After its sweep in Delhi's municipal election, BJP maintained its dominance in the urban local bodies by cornering nine out of 12 mayoral posts in UP.

BJP swept UP municipal corporation elections and even improved its tally over 2007 by one seat. Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party help BJP in sweeping the elections as they abstained from the polls and only supported candidates. This saw independent candidates winning in Allahabad, Ghaziabad and Bareilly.

For Congress, the only other principal party to have contested, civic elections were just an extension of its defeat in the assembly polls. In many cities, local parties like Peace Party gave competition to BJP finishing a close second.

BJP's Dinesh Sharma won the prestigious mayoral seat in Lucknow for the second consecutive time by defeating Congress's Neeraj Bora by a huge margin of more than 1 lakh votes. In Bareilly, SP backed IS Tomar defeated BJP's Gulshan Anand.

BJP's Bina Agrawal defeated Peace Party candidate in Moradabad while Shankuntala Bharti defeated Rajia Khan, an independent, in Aligarh. Similarly, Kiran Raj Bookseller won in Jhansi by defeating Nirmala, an independent, and Satya Pandey defeated Congress's Sujit Karim in Gorakhpur.

BJP candidates had taken an early lead over their rivals for Varanasi, Kanpur, Agra and Meerut municipal corporations while its candidates were defeated by independents in Allahabad and Ghaziabad. Saharanpur, which was recently upgraded as a municipal corporation, will go to polls later. The commission has not announced any results yet for the nagar parishads and nagar panchayats.

BJP was quick to term its victory as a verdict against the UPA government's policies. "People of UP have given a clear verdict against policies of Congress and its allies in the local body elections. They are fed up with the corruption, lawlessness and price rise," BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said. "Congress, SP and BSP have been wiped out in the elections and BJP has won maximum seats in the civic elections," he said.

Taking a dig at Congress, Naqvi said: "the party could not even win any seat in Amethi and Rae Bareli. This is a clear indication...Congress lost all the three seats they had won earlier.

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Kashmir Hindu 09/07/2012 23:29:15	civic polls of u.p. In Gorakhpur BJP got 19 out of 70 and 47 independents won half of whom are Samajwadi backed and BJP Mayor is Smt. Satya Pandey. In Ghaziabad BJP got 22 out of 80 and BJP Mayor is Teluram Kambhoj. In Bareilly BJP got 22 out of 70 where Congress got zero and Mayor post went to Samajwadi backed independent I.S. Tomar. In Varanasi BJP got 26 out of 90 and BJP Mayor is Ram Gopal Modle.
Santosh K Rastogi 09/07/2012 10:50:34	BJP won 10 mayoral seats out of 12. BJP won 10 mayoral seats out of 12 in UP. Ghaziabad seat also went in favour of BJP.
Santosh K Rastogi 09/07/2012 10:50:34	BJP won 10 mayoral seats out of 12. BJP won 10 mayoral seats out of 12 in UP. Ghaziabad seat also went in favour of BJP.
kashmir hindu 09/07/2012 08:22:37	civic polls of up BJP has won 10 out of 12 not 9.It won Ghaziabad Mayor post also but BJP failed to win majority in any of 12 corporations.Its best performance came in Lucknow where they won 47 out of 110.In Meerut BJP won 29 out of 80, IN Moradabad 24 out of 70,IN Allahabad 14 out of 80.Lot of seats went to independent candidates.BJP should identify candidates and focus on working among the people and strengthening their student,women and youth wings in U.P.Alsom if possible for Lok Sabha polls in U.P. they should declare their candidates much earlier and focus on campaigning more in rural areas.
chris 09/07/2012 06:25:39	Can it be transfered into vote for federal???? can we assume the vote earn will guarantee BJP and Hindus based Party to be in New Delhi coming this election??? Hope BJP and Co,work hard to finish off Congress at Nationallevel. It is no point you dominate all the villge level because you can't change the poliicies.
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