NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, FEB 23
The BJP juggernaut on Tuesday appeared on course to retain power in six municipal corporations, winning 409 of the 474 seats where results were declared till evening. All India Majlis Ittehadul Muslimin (AIMIM) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) opened their accounts for the first time in civic body polls in Gujarat.
કેન્દ્રિય ગૃહ મંત્રી શ્રી @AmitShah એ ગુજરાતની 6 મહાનગરપાલિકામાં ભાજપ એ મેળવેલ પ્રચંડ જીત બદલ ગુજરાત રાજ્યના મુખ્યમંત્રી શ્રી @vijayrupanibjp અને ગુજરાત પ્રદેશ ભારતીય જનતા પાર્ટીના અધ્યક્ષ
શ્રી @CRPaatil ને અભિનંદન આપ્યા હતા pic.twitter.com/Y5uVkC8W1R— BJP Gujarat (@BJP4Gujarat) February 23, 2021
Polling for 576 seats in Ahmedabad and five other civic corporations was held on February 21. The counting of votes began on Tuesday morning and is still underway.
Today’s win across Gujarat is very special. For a party that is serving in a state for over two decades to record such a phenomenal win is noteworthy. It is heartening to see widespread support from all sections of society, particularly the youth of Gujarat towards BJP.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 23, 2021
While Congress has won 43 of the declared seats so far, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), a new entrant in these elections, made impressive inroads by winning 27 seats so far.
આમ આદમી પાર્ટી સુરત શહેરના જંગી લીડ સાથે જીતેલા ઉમેદવારોનું સુરત મુખ્ય કાર્યાલય ખાતે અભિવાદન સમારોહ.
સુરતની જનતાનો ખૂબ ખૂબ આભાર.#GujaratElections pic.twitter.com/4n6ku1dLpN
— AAP Gujarat (@AAPGujarat) February 23, 2021
All India Majlis Ittehadul Muslimin (AIMIM) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) opened their accounts for the first time in civic body polls in Gujarat.
AIMIM won all the four seats in Jamalpur ward considered to be the Congress bastion, the Hyderabad-based party led by Lok Sabha MP Asaduddin Owaisi won three seats in Muslim-dominated Maktampura ward, thus giving a serious setback to the Congress party in Ahmedabad. Maktampura ward had elected Congress candidates in the past. One of the AIMIM winners from Jamalpur ward happens to be a Dalit woman.
The Congress candidates, however, won from Muslim dominated Behrampura and Dariyapur municipal wards. The results from another Muslim-dominated ward-Gomtipur-was yet to be announced.
A total of 192 seats in Ahmedabad, 72 in Rajkot, 64 in Jamnagar, 52 in Bhavnagar, 76 in Vadodara, and 120 in Surat were up for grabs in the elections.
The AAP had fielded 470 candidates across the six corporations.
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel expressed gratitude to the voters and BJP workers for the results.
“The grand victory of the BJP in these elections is the victory of the people of Gujarat. This is a grand victory of the politics of development of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” Rupani said.
“The people of Gujarat have provided a subject to political analysts who can now study how the concept of anti-incumbency does not apply in the state,” he said.
“Many thanks and congratulations to all the winning candidates, BJP office-bearers, workers, and the voters of Gujarat for the glorious victory of Bharatiya Janata Party in the elections,” Patel tweeted.
Congress, the main opposition party, has not won a single seat in Surat.
The Bahujan Samaj Party has won three seats in Jamnagar.
The Congress has won 10 seats in Ahmedabad, four in Rajkot, 11 in Jamnagar, five in Bhavnagar, seven in Vadodara, and zero seats in Surat.
The AAP, which had fielded 470 candidates across six corporations, won eight seats in Surat. Its workers celebrated by cutting cakes after the party won two panels (each having four candidates) in the city.
In a major setback to Congress, it has not won a single seat in Surat, nor was it leading on any seat.