Jammu, Oct 20 (UNI) Bharatiya Janata Party in Jammu was in a festive mood on Saturday as it made a clean sweep in civic polls by winning maximum 43 seats in municipal corporations and 48 seats in municipal committees.
In Municipal corporation, Independents came second by bagging 18 seats, followed by Congress party--14 seats.
In Municipal committees, Congress came second by winning four seats, followed by Independents--three seats.
Out of the 48 seats of municipal committees won by BJP, 13 seats came in women candidates kitty. However, in some parts of the Jammu especially in old city where, BJP had committed voters, the lotus failed to bloom.
There were total 75 wards in the Jammu Municipal Corporation and seven block committees across the district.
Reports from seven districts including R S Pura, Arnia, Gho Manssan, Bishnah, Jourian, Akhnoor and Khour said that the BJP candidates swept away the maximum seats.
Deputy Commissioner Jammu Ramesh Kumar, who is also District Election Officer (DEO) said that BJP won 38 seats, 14 by Congress and 16 by independents in block committees.
In Jourian BJP won 2 seats, Congress 4 and independent one, in Gho Manassan, BJP won five, Congress two, in Bishnah BJP won six, independents 7, Arnia won six, Congress 1 and Independents 5, in Akhnoor BJP won 11, Congress 2, in Khour BJP won nine, Congress 4 and in R S pura, BJP won nine, Congress one and Independent 3.
Meanwhile the BJP supporters carrying the party flags dancing to the tunes of drums and ‘dhols’ celebrated the victory of the party candidates elected as corporators.
Amid slogans ‘Har Har Modi, Ghar Ghar Modi’, the BJP supporters held rallies with the winning candidates while they were garlanded by them.
BJP State President Ravinder Raina said "it is victory of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it is a victory of people."
“It is a landslide victory of BJP and people gave bumper vote to the party,” he said adding that there was no other party that stood in front of the BJP.
He however, also slammed the NC vice-president Omar Abdullah on boycott call, saying, “those who dare participate in polls and others sit in room and tweet.”
“Lotus bloomed from Lal Chowk to Lal Qila and people have showed faith in the BJP,” he asserted.
However, the Congress activists also celebrated the win of their candidates by distributing sweets and garlanding them at the counting point.
Jammu, overwhelmingly participated in the process with whooping 63.83 per cent vote to elect ward representatives for 75 municipals wards and 7 committees across the district.
In Jammu, the election was held in 153 wards of district including 75 wards of Jammu Municipal Corporation and 78 wards of seven municipal committees.
Out of total 4,00,283 voters for all 75 wards of JMC, 2,47,866 cast their votes, with overall percentage of 61.92.
Similarly, out of total 41,352 for seven municipal committees, 34,023 with 83.21 percent voters cast their votes to elect ward representatives from 78 wards of seven municipal committees.
There were in all 447 candidates in fray, including 75 from BJP, 74 of Congress, 274 independent, 23 of Panthers Party and one from Nationalist Congress Party.
The last ULB elections were held during the period of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Congress coalition government in 2005.
Earlier, BJP in Jammu had won historic 25 seats in 2014 state assembly elections.
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