11-07-2006, 11:21 PM
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Pioneer News Service | Lucknow
The BJP maintained its grip in urban areas across Uttar Pradesh winning six mayoral seats in 10 Municipal Corporations, results for which were declared on Tuesday night.
The BJP was leading in the remaining two municipal corporations of Lucknow and Kanpur when reports last came in.
<b>The Congress bagged three seats, improving its tally by two and emerging victorious in Allahabad, Bareilly and Jhansi. The ruling Samajwadi Party won only one seat - Moradabad.</b>
<b>In Lucknow, BJP candidate Dr Dinesh Sharma was leading his Congress rival Dr Manzoor Ahmed by 70,000 votes when reports last came in, while in Kanpur, BJP's Ravindra Patni was ahead of Congress nominee Badri Narain Tewari by over 27,000 votes.</b>
In Allahabad, Chaudhary Jitendra Nath Singh of the Congress defeated Vijay Kumar Mishra of the BJP by over 24,000 votes, to wrest the seat for the party after nearly two decades. In Bareilly and Jhansi, likewise Supriya Aron and Dr B Lal recorded handsome wins for the party.
<b>Tufel Hassan was the lone victor for the Samajwadi Party. He edged past BJP candidate Bina Agarwal by just 1,718 votes.</b>
The BJP caused the biggest upset in Meerut as its party candidate Madhu Gujar <span style='color:red'>defeated Sanjida Begum, wife of State Haj Minister Haji Yakub Qureshi</span>. The saffron party also romped home in Ghaziabad, Aligarh, Agra, Gorakhpur and Varanasi.
However, in the elections to chairpersons of Nagar Palika Parishad and Nagar Panchayats, the independents continued to dominate with the ruling Samajwadi Party coming a close second.
With 497 of the 611 results declared so far, the independents had won 182 posts while the Samajwadi Party had gained 143 seats. The BJP was a distant third with 85 winners while the Congress could win only 36 seats so far. Other parties had bagged 52 seats.
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Pioneer News Service | Lucknow
The BJP maintained its grip in urban areas across Uttar Pradesh winning six mayoral seats in 10 Municipal Corporations, results for which were declared on Tuesday night.
The BJP was leading in the remaining two municipal corporations of Lucknow and Kanpur when reports last came in.
<b>The Congress bagged three seats, improving its tally by two and emerging victorious in Allahabad, Bareilly and Jhansi. The ruling Samajwadi Party won only one seat - Moradabad.</b>
<b>In Lucknow, BJP candidate Dr Dinesh Sharma was leading his Congress rival Dr Manzoor Ahmed by 70,000 votes when reports last came in, while in Kanpur, BJP's Ravindra Patni was ahead of Congress nominee Badri Narain Tewari by over 27,000 votes.</b>
In Allahabad, Chaudhary Jitendra Nath Singh of the Congress defeated Vijay Kumar Mishra of the BJP by over 24,000 votes, to wrest the seat for the party after nearly two decades. In Bareilly and Jhansi, likewise Supriya Aron and Dr B Lal recorded handsome wins for the party.
<b>Tufel Hassan was the lone victor for the Samajwadi Party. He edged past BJP candidate Bina Agarwal by just 1,718 votes.</b>
The BJP caused the biggest upset in Meerut as its party candidate Madhu Gujar <span style='color:red'>defeated Sanjida Begum, wife of State Haj Minister Haji Yakub Qureshi</span>. The saffron party also romped home in Ghaziabad, Aligarh, Agra, Gorakhpur and Varanasi.
However, in the elections to chairpersons of Nagar Palika Parishad and Nagar Panchayats, the independents continued to dominate with the ruling Samajwadi Party coming a close second.
With 497 of the 611 results declared so far, the independents had won 182 posts while the Samajwadi Party had gained 143 seats. The BJP was a distant third with 85 winners while the Congress could win only 36 seats so far. Other parties had bagged 52 seats.
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