Raj civic polls: Ruling BJP wins mayoral/chairpersons posts in 194 of 301 civic bodies; Congress distant second with 94 wins
Jaipur, Sep 21 (UNI) The ruling BJP has succeeded in getting its nominees elected mayors in the newly-constituted municipal corporations of Alwar, Ajmer, Udaipur and Pali.
In the Bharatpur and Bhilwara Municipal Corporations the BJP candidates have already been elected unopposed mayors. The opposition Congress, however, has won the mayoral polls convincingly in the Bikaner Municipal Corporation, with its nominee Anil Kalla declared elected, defeating his BJP rival Surendra Singh by 20 votes. Winner Kalla polled 50 votes -- eight votes more than the party's own strength of 42 members in the 80-member house.
The Congress nominee bagged additional seven votes of Independents and that of lone Rashtriya Loktantric Party (RLP), while the BJP candidate Singh also got additional votes of three Independents. As a whole, the civic bodies polls were held in 309 local bodies, including 10 municipal corporations, earlier this month.
The results of voting for mayoral and chairpersons elections in 301 municipal bodies have so far been announced by the state election commission. Of them, the ruling BJP nominees won in 194 municipalities and the Congress remained distant second with wins in 94 civic bodies. The mayoral elections have been completed in seven of the 10 municipal corporations that went to polls on September 9 and 11.
The election of mayor in Jaipur, Jodhpur and Kota will be held on September 25, 2026. In today's voting, Bikaner Municipal Corporation had a clean majority in favour of the Congress (42/80 ); in Udaipur the BJP secured 53, more than the half way mark of 41. In voting in the 80-member Udaipur civic body today, BJP's Paras Singhvi bagged 55 votes, two more than the party's own votes.
The runner-up Poonam Kanwar Rathore of Congress also secured the vote of one Independent and one vote of CPI(M) corporator. In Alwar, the home constituency of union Minister Bhupendra Yadav, although the ruling BJP fell short of majority (28/65), however, in the mayoral voting today the Congress nominee Kamlesh Sharma has secured all the party votes. BJP nominee Suman Lata Agrawal, besides the party's own kitty, bagged additional votes of all the 14 Independents taking his final figures at 42.
In Pali, the home district of BJP state president Madan Rathore, the ruling party was lagging eight seats behind rival Congress in the 65-member house. However, in Monday's mayoral polls the saffron party succeeded in attracting additional votes of 12 of the 15 Independents for the party winner Namita Bubakiya who won the polls by 33/65. Loser Sumitra Jain (Congress) could get three votes of Independents.
In the home town of Assembly Speaker Vasudev Devnani, the BJP (32) suffered setback in the ward members election, getting five seats less than the rival Congress (37) in the 80-member house. However, in the mayoral voting today BJP nominee Anamika Sharma (43) got additional votes of all 11 Independents while her Congress rival Kiran Gadwali retained the party votes.
While the ruling BJP has hailed the polls outcome as a landslide win that "endorses the pro-development agenda of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and approval ofthe good governance by the Bhajan Lal Sharma led party government in the state".
A total of 309 civic bodies, including ten municipal corporations, went to polls in the Rajasthan civic bodies polls-2026. The results of the voting for mayoral and chairpersons in 301 were available. Of them, the BJP nominees won in 197 municipal bodies, Congress 94, AAP in one, CPI(M) -one, RLP-one and IND-seven.
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