Outcomes of the current native physique polls in Madhya Pradesh have seen emergence of the Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP) and the Hyderabad-based AIMIM as sturdy contenders for the third pressure area in a state the place the Congress and the BJP have been the dominant gamers.
The Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP and the Asaduddin Owaisi-headed All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) need to fill the area that till now was occupied by the Samajwadi Get together (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Get together (BSP), whose political footprints are shrinking within the state.
The AAP, in its maiden civic polls contest, claimed to have garnered 6.3 per cent vote share, whereas the AIMIM has received seven of its candidates elected as corporators.
However, the Mayawati-led BSP and the SP, which had pockets of affect in Madhya Pradesh and in addition legislative presence, have seen their electoral fortunes dwindling.
The ruling BJP and the primary opposition Congress, nonetheless, seem unfazed by the rising variety of third pressure contenders within the state, the place bipolar politics has been the norm to date.
“We received 6.3 per cent votes in city physique polls. Of the 14 mayoral candidates, one gained from Singrauli and people in Gwalior and Rewa got here third. In Gwalior, we received about 46,000 votes,” AAP’s state president Pankaj Singh advised PTI.
The fledgling outfit, which has its governments in Nationwide Capital Territory of Delhi and now Punjab, had fielded about 1,500 candidates for councillors’ posts in city our bodies, of whom 40 gained, whereas 135-140 ended up as runners up.
Within the panchayat polls, held with out social gathering symbols, the AAP supported candidates gained 10 posts of district panchayat members, 23 janpad members, 103 sarpanchs and 250 panchs, Singh claimed. The social gathering is eager on giving a powerful third choice to Madhya Pradesh voters within the 2023 Meeting polls as persons are offended with each the BJP and the Congress, he mentioned.
“Our social gathering chief (Kejriwal) has already advised us to organize to contest all of the 230 Meeting seats. We’re within the technique of strengthening our group proper from sales space stage and gearing as much as battle for pro-people points,” the AAP chief mentioned.
The AAP had contested all 29 seats within the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, getting 2 per cent votes, whereas within the 2018 Meeting polls, the social gathering bagged mere 1 per cent, however the share has gone as much as 6 per cent this time (in native physique polls), he mentioned. AIMIM chief Sayyad Minhajuddin, a corporator in Hyderabad and in-charge of the social gathering in Madhya Pradesh, advised .
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