In the Guwahati Municipal Corporation elections, the Congress got a ‘big blow’, did not open the account, the BJP won
Guwahati | Guwahati Municipal Election Results: In the Guwahati Municipal Corporation elections, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition has made a clean sweep to the Congress. Here the Congress has not even opened the account of victory. The BJP has registered a massive victory in the 60-seat Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) elections on Sunday. The BJP has stopped speaking of the opposition by winning 58 out of 60 seats. Apart from the BJP, one seat has been won by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and one seat by the Asom Jatiya Parishad (AJP).
PM Modi congratulated
After this massive victory of BJP in the elections in Guwahati, PM Modi has congratulated all the workers and the public and tweeted that the people of Guwahati have given a big mandate to the BJP to build on the agenda of development. The people also blessed the hard work of the state government. Thanks to the people of Guwahati for this. Along with this, PM Modi also thanked all BJP workers for their hard work.
Thank you Guwahati! The people of this lovely city have given a resounding mandate to @BJP4Assam to build on the agenda of development. They have also blessed the hardwork of the state government under CM @himantabiswa, My gratitude to every BJP Karyakarta for the hardwork.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 24, 2022
BJP has already won 3 seats unopposed
Guwahati Municipal Election Results: The Congress, which is considered the main opposition party in the Guwahati elections, could not even open its account. Whereas, BJP (52 wards) and its ally Asom Gana Parishad (6 wards) won 58 wards. In which BJP candidates have already won 3 seats unopposed. But AJP candidate Hukum Chand Ali won by defeating BJP candidate in Ward No. Apart from this, AAP candidate Masoom Begum has won from ward no 42.
#WATCH Assam: Party workers celebrate the victory of the BJP in the Guwahati Municipal Corporation elections, in Guwahati. pic.twitter.com/cr4ZbQ7iZj
— ANI_HindiNews (@AHindinews) April 24, 2022
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Congress, which was occupied by GMC in 2013, was defeated in 2022
Let us tell you that, for the first time on 24th i.e. Friday, EVMs were cast for GMC. In which 197 candidates fielded for 57 seats in the elections and the voter turnout was 52.80 percent. In the year 2013, the GMC was occupied by the Congress, after the BJP’s entry into power in Assam in 2016, the Congress remained a minority in the GMC. This time the Congress had fielded candidates in the maximum number of 54 wards, but it could not win a single ward.
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