11-09-2006, 02:04 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>BJP win in UP civic body polls stumps other parties </b>
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Aloke Sharma | Meerut
<b>Election results of the local bodies have not only brought cheers to the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) but also left many people wondering over the realignment of political forces that have led to such a situation. </b>
Leaders of Samajwadi Party (SP), Congress and Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) are concerned over the considerable influence of newly formed United Democratic Front (UDF) among Muslims.
Interestingly, the main campaigner of this front Hazi Yaqub, who is still a Minister in Mulayam Singh Government, did manage to attract large number of Muslim votes towards his wife and UDF.
When the election campaign started, it was believed that the main contest would be witnessed among <b>Madhu Gujjar of BJP, Jubeda Begum of BSP, Shaista Begum of RLD and Sanjeeda Begum of UDF.</b>
It may be noted that <b>Madhu Gujjar is wife of ex-Mayor Sushil Gujjar; Shaista Begum is wife of senior RLD leader Taj Alvi and Jubeda Begum is aunt of ex-Mayor and MP Shahid Akhlaq.</b> All these leaders worked hard, spent money and made this election a prestige issue.
But the way <b>Madhu Gujjar has defeated her nearest rival Sanjeeda Begum of UDF with record votes, all the other political leaders and their parties remained stunned.</b> Even the BJP leaders were not expecting this kind of victory.<b> In fact polarisation of votes on the basis of Hindu and Muslim gave a chance to the BJP candidate to get success in this election.</b>
<b>Leaders of almost all the political parties except BJP are disappointed </b>with the results of local bodies in western Uttar Pradesh because the party candidates have won Meerut, Muzaffarnagar and Bijnore. <b>RLD leaders are most disappointed with the results of the elections of local bodies as their candidates could not even register victory in the constituency of party president Ajit Singh.</b> <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Pioneer.com
Aloke Sharma | Meerut
<b>Election results of the local bodies have not only brought cheers to the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) but also left many people wondering over the realignment of political forces that have led to such a situation. </b>
Leaders of Samajwadi Party (SP), Congress and Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) are concerned over the considerable influence of newly formed United Democratic Front (UDF) among Muslims.
Interestingly, the main campaigner of this front Hazi Yaqub, who is still a Minister in Mulayam Singh Government, did manage to attract large number of Muslim votes towards his wife and UDF.
When the election campaign started, it was believed that the main contest would be witnessed among <b>Madhu Gujjar of BJP, Jubeda Begum of BSP, Shaista Begum of RLD and Sanjeeda Begum of UDF.</b>
It may be noted that <b>Madhu Gujjar is wife of ex-Mayor Sushil Gujjar; Shaista Begum is wife of senior RLD leader Taj Alvi and Jubeda Begum is aunt of ex-Mayor and MP Shahid Akhlaq.</b> All these leaders worked hard, spent money and made this election a prestige issue.
But the way <b>Madhu Gujjar has defeated her nearest rival Sanjeeda Begum of UDF with record votes, all the other political leaders and their parties remained stunned.</b> Even the BJP leaders were not expecting this kind of victory.<b> In fact polarisation of votes on the basis of Hindu and Muslim gave a chance to the BJP candidate to get success in this election.</b>
<b>Leaders of almost all the political parties except BJP are disappointed </b>with the results of local bodies in western Uttar Pradesh because the party candidates have won Meerut, Muzaffarnagar and Bijnore. <b>RLD leaders are most disappointed with the results of the elections of local bodies as their candidates could not even register victory in the constituency of party president Ajit Singh.</b> <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->