BJP sweeps Gujrat municipal polls

Ahmedabad : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is all set to sweep the municipal polls in Gujarat, according to reports on Tuesday.

The six municipal corporations of Narendra Modi?s Gujarat-Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot, Vadodara, Bhavnagar and Jamnagar -went on polls on Sunday (Oct 10).

According to CNN-IBN news channel, so far, BJP has won 37 and Congress 8 of the 189 seats in Ahmedabad.

In Surat, BJP has bagged 27 out of 114 seats, while Congress has again won in three.

In Rajkot, BJP has won 58 out of 69 seats, while Congress settled for 11.

In Vadodara, the BJP has got 25 of the 75 seats. Congress has won three seats.

In Bhavnagar, BJP has won in 41 and Congress in 10 seats.

The BJP is leading in Jamnagar as well.

The counting is still on at 14 centres across the six cities.

Earlier, on Monday, the state Election Commission dismissed Congress? demand to hold on the municipal election results till the upcoming Panchayat polls

The BJP has a thumping victory in the last elections in 2005.

On Sept 17 this year, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi?s 61st birthday turned out to be a day of double celebrations for the BJP state unit as the party wrestled the Kathlal assembly seat from the Congress in a by-poll for the first time in five decades.

BJP’s Kanu Dabhi polled 62,120 votes against his nearest Congress rival Ghelabhai Zala?s 40,573 votes, winning the seat by a margin of over 21,000 votes.

This victory took the BJP?s tally in the state Assembly to 122 in a House of 182 members. The Congress has 54 legislators, while others hold six seats.

It was the maiden time that the BJP won the Kathlal seat since the formation of the Assembly constituency in 1960.