Civic poll results, an eye-opener for everyone: UP CM

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India] Dec. 01 (ANI): The results of the Uttar Pradesh civic polls are an eye opener for everyone, according to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday.

His statement comes after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was poised to shine in the civic polls after the initial results and trends.

Addressing a press conference here, Adityanath said, "This election is to make us responsible. This poll is an eye opener for everyone, including those who were linking UP civic polls with Gujarat Assembly polls."

As per the latest counting updates, the BJP is leading in 14 of the 16 mayoral seats in the state. In the remaining two places, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is leading.

The Congress got biggest electoral jolt after the BJP won the Amethi Nagar Panchayat by over a 1,000 votes.

Amethi is Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's Lok Sabha constituency, and has long been a bastion of the Gandhi family.

The BJP's Chandrama Devi won the Amethi Nagar Panchayat by 1035 votes.

The BJP candidates have won Agra, Ghaziabad and Kanpur mayoral seats. Kanpur BJP's Pramila Pandey has become second woman mayor. Vinod Agarwal of the BJP has won the mayor seat of Moradabad.

The BJP leads in 57 wards of the 98 wards getting counted in Lucknow.

Results come as a jolt for the Samajwadi Party as the BSP has dented their vote base in urban areas.

The BJP has also won the prestigious Ayodhya-Faizabad seat. The BJP candidate defeated Samajwadi Party's Bindu by around 4600 votes. Ayodhya had been elevated to Nagar Nigam along with Mathura by the ruling BJP in the state.

However, some surprising results have also shaken the has lost all the six seats of chairmen of Nagar Panchayats in the home turf of Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Maurya's bastion.

Independent Rajendra Kumar Singh won the Sirathu Nagar Pacnhayat seat while SP's Urmila Devi emerged victorious in Karari Nagar. In Majhanpur, BSP's Mehtab Alam won. At Chail, Sarai Akil and Ajuha, independent candidate Shivmani Kesarwani, Congress's Rohit Aazad and Independent Anil Kumar bagged the top posts, respectively.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's home town Gorakhpur too had a bad news for the BJP as its corporator candidate has lost in the ward where Adityanath had voted.

In Mathura, the BJP candidate Meera Agarwal won from ward number 56 through lottery system as she and the Congress candidate 874 votes each.

Counting of votes of all 652 Urban Local Bodies is being held at 334 centers in Uttar Pradesh and full results are expected by evening. Polling was held in three phases on November 22, 26 and 29. (ANI)