Voting for district panchayat presidents of 53 districts of Uttar Pradesh began at 11 am on Saturday and will continue till 3 pm. After being declared the winner unopposed in 22 districts, only 53 out of 75 posts will go to polls.
On Friday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 21 seats unopposed and a Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate was also elected unopposed.
The State Election Commission said that district panchayat chiefs have been elected unopposed from Saharanpur, Bahraich, Itawa, Chitrakoot, Agra, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahar, Amroha, Moradabad, Lalitpur, Jhansi, Banda, Shravasti, Balrampur, Gonda, Gorakhpur, Mau, Varanasi, Pilibhit and Shahjahanpur. UP State Election Commissioner Manoj Kumar said that chairpersons of these district panchayats have been elected unopposed.
BJP general secretary JPS Rathore told PTI, “BJP won 21 posts of district panchayat presidents, who were elected unopposed.” SP spokesperson Sunil Singh Sajan told that his candidate has won from Etawah. .
There have been allegations of massive government pressure and administrative abuse by the BJP in the elections. Referring to these reasons, BSP chief Mayawati had announced not to contest the elections. Similarly, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav had also accused the Yogi Adityanath government of intimidation and intimidation.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Saturday sacked the presidents of 11 of its district units without assigning any reason, but people familiar with the developments told news agency PTI that they were thrown out because they could not file their nomination papers for the post of district panchayat. Didn’t come to enter. President.
Earlier in the Panchayat elections, the BJP suffered a major setback as many of the party’s candidates lost and the result was seen as a referendum on the Yogi government.
Panchayat elections or the election of district panchayat chiefs are not on the basis of political parties, but the candidates receive tacit support from various parties.
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