BHOPAL, Madhya Pradesh: The ruling Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), in the recent Mayoral elections in Madhya Pradesh, has managed to secure nine seats out of a total of 16 seats. While Congress won five seats, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won one seat, and one went to an independent candidate.
Congress won a mayoral election in the Morena district, which falls in the constituency of Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister for Agriculture, Government of India and VD Sharma, State Chief, BJP.
This time, new political parties, AAP and All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) have marked their entry into the local bodies of the state. AAP has won the Singrauli seat while AIMIM’s mayoral candidate got 10,000 votes. Thus, reducing the vote margin between the winning candidate of BJP, Madhuri Patel and Congress’s Shanaz Ismail to a meagre 388 votes.
In the first phase, Congress won three seats out of a total of 11 mayoral posts and in the second phase, Congress won over Morena and Rewa from BJP. BJP on the other hand has won mayoral elections in Ratlam and Dewas.
BJP has also won Nagar Palika polls in the Khargone district.