In a major shot in the arm for Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's government, the Bharatiya Janata Party swept the Uttar Pradesh urban local body polls winning the Mayoral seats of all the 17 municipal corporations besides 90 posts of municipality chairman and over 600 wards.
A delegation of the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena on Wednesday met Governor Ramesh Bais at Raj Bhavan, putting forth a slew of allegations of corruption and irregularities in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
In this regard, Rahul Gandhi took to Twitter and said, "Many congratulations to all our Babbar Sher workers, leaders and members of the state for the big victory of Congress in Shimla Municipal Corporation elections. The Himachal government fulfilled the promise given to the people, that is
"I appeal to all the voters to cast their votes for the UP Municipal Elections 2023. Municipal elections are the election of a local issue for which voting is being done," Maulana Khalid Rasheed said.
Addressing the media BJP leader Aparna said, "Voting is a festival for a democracy which gives rights to every person to cast his vote and strengthens the democracy. I urge everyone to cast their vote in the UP Municipal Corporation election."
The EVM stopped working at Shyamu Devi Polling Station booth number 288 in Moradabad thus temporarily stalling the polling process. The voters were seen standing in the long queue waiting for the polling to begin.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday cast his vote in Lucknow in the first phase of Municipal Corporation elections and urged people to exercise their franchise.