Friday, August 20, 2010

BJP DOES WELL IN RAJASTHAN CIVIC POLLS

BJP races past ruling Cong in Rajasthan civic body polls
     Jaipur, Aug 20 (PTI) The BJP today raced past the
Congress in Rajasthan civic body polls capturing power in 57
of the 126 municipal bodies and relegating the ruling party to
the second position with a tally of 49.
     The BJP won 57 posts of chairpersons, Congress 49, BSP
two, NCP one and Independents 17, state Election Commissioner
A K Pandey said.
     The party maintained its winning run in the election to
the posts of ward councillors as well emerging victorious in
1071 out of 2707 wards whose results have been declared so
far, said the official.
     Congress has won in 1025 wards, Independents 574, NCP-21,
BSP-14, and CPI-M 2, he said.
     In the last civic body polls held in the state in 2005
with Vasundhara Raje at the helm, the BJP had formed 81
municipal boards, the Congress 33, and Independents-17.
     Reacting to her party's impressive show in a jubiliant
mood, BJP General Secretary and former chief minister
Vasundhara Raje congratulated party workers saying that the
results were an indication that the reverse countdown for the
Gehlot government had begun.
     "The electorate have rejected the Gehlot government's
misrule of the last 20 months", Raje commented in a statement
here.
     "Janta Gehlot raj ke kushashan se tang aachuki hai"
(People are tired of Gehlot's misrule)", she alleged.
     Despite misusing official machinery the Congress
candidates could not win as the party and the government both
lost public mandate, she said.
     At a press conference the BJP state president Arun
Chaturvedi said it was the worst defeat of the ruling Congress
party as its four union ministers Mahadev Singh Khadela in
Sikar, Namonarayan Meena in Tonk, C P Joshi in Bhilwara, and
Sachin Pilot in Ajmer could not enable their candidates to win
chairpersons' posts.
     Similary about 15 ministers of the Gehlot government
tried their best to boost the morale of Congress candidates
but failed miserably, Chaturvedi said.
     When contacted a PCC Spokesman said as compared to the
previous civic election in 2005, the Congress gained 33 to 49,
while BJP lost 27 chairpersons' posts. PTI

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