New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won six of the seven Rajasthan municipal corporation mayoral posts decided so far, while the Congress has secured Bikaner. The results came on Monday (September 21), when voters elected mayors and heads of 273 urban local bodies across the state.
The BJP’s six decided mayoral posts are Ajmer, Pali, Udaipur, Alwar, Bharatpur and Bhilwara. The Congress won Bikaner, where Anil Kalla secured 50 of the 80 votes cast.
That gave the grand old party the largest bloc, but BJP candidate Anamika Sharma won the mayoral election on Monday. The Ajmer result was among the day’s major contests. Pali witnessed a similar result. BJP candidate Namita Bubakia secured the mayor’s post, becoming the district’s first elected woman mayor. In Alwar, BJP candidate Sumanlata Agrawal became mayor. That made the final contest dependent on support beyond the two main parties.
The Congress had won 37 of the 80 wards in the municipal corporation, compared with 32 for the BJP and 11 independents. The Congress had won 29 of the 65 wards, while the BJP had 21 and independents 15. The majority number was 33. The party had 28 councillors in the 65-member corporation after the ward elections, while th Congress had 23. Neither party had the 33 votes required for a majority. The state Election Commission had said 32 heads of urban local bodies were elected unopposed before the September 21 voting, including the two municipal corporations.
