The results came on Monday (September 21), when voters elected mayors and heads of 273 urban local bodies across the state. 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 Congress won Bikaner, where Anil Kalla secured 50 of the 80 votes cast. The BJP’s six decided mayoral posts are Ajmer, Pali, Udaipur, Alwar, Bharatpur and Bhilwara.
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 secured a majority in the 80-member Udaipur Municipal Corporation by winning 53 wards in the councillor elections. 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. Anil Kalla received 50 votes in the 80-member corporation, giving the party the mayor’s post.
BJP candidate Paras Singhi won the Udaipur mayoral post. 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. Bikaner was the one municipal corporation among the seven decided so far to go to the Congress.
That gave the grand old party the largest bloc, but BJP candidate Anamika Sharma won the mayoral election on Monday.
