BJP sweeps Gujarat panchayat polls

Ahmedabad : After a landslide win at Gujarat municipal elections, Narendra Modi led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the panchayat polls as well winning 22 of the 24 seats, results announced on Saturday said.

The state?s 24 district panchayats, 208 taluka (block) panchayats and 53 municipalities went on polls on Thursday.

BJP defeated Congress in 22 out of the 24 district panchayats.

The political parties were battling over 4,875 district and block panchayat seats and 1,890 municipality seats.

?BJP?s clean sweep in the Gujarat polls is a message to the Congress,? party spokesperson Nirmala Seetharaman told reporters on Saturday.

Meanwhile, the state Congress president Siddarth Patel has resigned taking moral responsibility for the debacle.

Earlier on Oct 12, BJP swept the municipal polls in Gujarat.