Counting of votes forged through the two phases of the city native our bodies’ polls and the by-election to 2 assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh started on Saturday morning.
Officials mentioned most of the preparations are full and the counting began at 8 a.m. on Saturday.
They mentioned directions got to rearrange chilly water and ‘sharbat’ on the counting centres in view of the rising warmth.
The State Election Commission (SEC) mentioned that 353 counting centres have been arrange.
Lucknow District Magistrate Suryapal Gangwar and Joint Commissioner of Police Upendra Agrawal reviewed the preparations in the state capital.
The bypolls have been held in the Suar assembly seat in Rampur district and Chhanbey (SC) in Mirzapur district on May 10. There was a direct contest between the ruling coalition led by the BJP and the opposition Samajwadi Party (SP) on each seats, political analysts say.
The Suar seat fell vacant in February following the disqualification of SP chief Azam Khan’s son Abdullah Azam Khan as an MLA after a Moradabad courtroom sentenced him to 2 years in jail in a 15-year-old case.
The Chhanbey seat fell vacant after the demise of Apna Dal (Sonelal) MLA Rahul Prakash Kol in February.
The ULB polls have been held in two phases on May 4 and May 11.
About 53 per cent of voters exercised their franchise through the ULB polls out of the entire 4.32 crore who have been eligible to vote, in response to the Election Commission information.
Seventeen mayors and 1,401 corporators might be elected after the outcomes are declared on Saturday. As many as 19 corporators have been elected unopposed.
Shahjahanpur will elect its mayor for the primary time this yr as the town turned a municipal company in 2018.
Meerut and Aligarh had Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) mayors in 2017, whereas the BJP dominated the remaining of the civic our bodies.
The ULB polls may also elect 198 chairpersons and 5,260 members of nagar palika parishads. For nagar panchayats, the destiny of 542 chairpersons and seven,104 members might be determined.
There have been 83,378 candidates in the fray for 14,522 posts, in response to the SEC.
During the marketing campaign, senior leaders of numerous political events visited completely different elements of the state.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his deputies Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak campaigned extensively for the Bharatiya Janata Party candidates. State BJP president Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary and former Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma additionally held election conferences for get together candidates.
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav held roadshows. Mainpuri MP Dimple Yadav additionally campaigned for get together candidates.
Whoever wins the bulk of seats in the ULB polls will attempt to showcase their power earlier than the essential 2024 normal election as UP sends the utmost 80 MPs to Lok Sabha.
The events and their candidates now anxiously wait for the outcomes.
“The BJP is going to win all 17 mayor seats. It will bag a lion’s share in the corporators’ category. The party will also perform extremely well in nagar palika parishads and nagar panchayats,” UP BJP spokesperson Hero Bajpai mentioned.
SP spokesperson Deepak Ranjan mentioned the ULB polls “will spring up a surprise. The cycle (SP’s election symbol) travelled far ahead, while the lotus (BJP’s symbol) did not bloom,” Mr. Ranjan asserted.
UP Congress media convenor Ashok Singh too mentioned the get together’s efficiency in the election will shock everybody.
Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) spokesperson Ankur Saxena mentioned his get together’s efficiency might be “very good.”
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Shekhar Dixit mentioned the individuals have “blessed us in the civic polls, and the results will prove this.” He added that individuals have understood that AAP is the “only alternative” to the BJP.
Rajesh Srivastava, the spokesperson of the UP unit of the Apna Dal (Sonelal), exuded confidence saying, “both the candidates of the party will register emphatic wins in the assembly by-elections.”
