Lucknow: Mayors of the Bharatiya Janata Party took oath in all the 17 municipal corporations of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. This time a large number of BJP’s 1235 women and representatives of 61 minority communities took the oath of office.
The BJP achieved unprecedented success in the 2023 civic elections with 813 corporators of municipal corporations, 89 chairpersons of city councils, 1360 members, 191 chairpersons of city panchayats and 1403 members elected from the party.
This election also provided significant representation to women and minority communities from the BJP. 6 women mayors, 273 corporators, 44 chairpersons, 305 members of city councils, 90 chairpersons of city panchayats and 517 women members took oath. Similarly, 61 people from the minority community took oath on behalf of the BJP.
On Friday and Saturday, all 17 mayors took the oath within two days, namely, Sushma Kharwal from Lucknow, Manglesh Srivastava from Gorakhpur, Ashok Tiwari from Varanasi, Ganesh Chandra Umesh Kesarwani from Prayagraj, Girish Pati Tripathi from Ayodhya, Pramila Pandey from Kanpur, Prashant Singhal from Aligarh, Harikant Ahluwalia from Meerut, Bihari Lal Arya from Jhansi, Archana Verma from Shahjahanpur, Ajay Singh from Saharanpur, Vinod Agrawal from Moradabad, Vinod Agrawal from Mathura-Vrindavan, Sunita Dayal from Ghaziabad, Umesh Gautam from Bareilly, Kamini Rathore from Firozabad, and Hemlata Diwakar from Agra took the oath for the Mayor posts.
Yogi Adityanath appealed for the formation of BJP board in every public meeting and the voters responded by joining him in the development of Uttar Pradesh. BJP boards have been formed in 13 municipal corporations. For the first time such a large number of boards were made. Expressing gratitude to the voters, the Chief Minister directed the mayor to prepare a master plan for development.
During the meeting after the victory, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath suggested to all the mayors to increase the income of the municipal corporation. He also proposed to clean the drains before the monsoon, make the cities beautiful and clean and revive them. Along with this, he also advised all the corporations to become self-reliant.