Lucknow: Owing to the achievements of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on multiple fronts, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) achieved massive victory in the recent mayoral elections bagging all the 17 seats for the first time. Within two days, BJP mayors took the ‘oath of development’ in all 17 municipal corporations of the state.
As a result of Yogi’s policies, the newly elected mayors, who have already eliminated the opposition, have now been entrusted with the responsibility of fulfilling the public aspirations. Additionally, this time, a significant number of 1235 women and 61 minority communities representatives of the BJP took the oath of office.
813 councilors of the BJP took the oath along with 89 chairpersons of municipal corporations
Under the leadership of Yogi Adityanath, the BJP achieved unprecedented success in the 2023 civic body elections with 813 councilors of municipal corporations, 89 chairpersons of municipal councils, 1360 members, 191 chairpersons of Nagar Panchayats, and 1403 members getting elected from the party.
This election also provided significant representation to women and minority communities from the BJP. Six female mayors, 273 councilors, 44 chairpersons of municipal councils, 305 members, 90 chairpersons of Nagar Panchayats, and 517 female members took the oath. Similarly, 61 individuals from the minority communities took the oath on behalf of the BJP.
On Friday and Saturday, all 17 mayors took the oath within two days, namely, Sushma Kharwal from Lucknow, Dr. 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 positions.
Formation of BJP’s Board at Yogi’s call
Yogi Adityanath had appealed for the formation of BJP boards in every public meeting, and the voters responded by aligning with him in Uttar Pradesh’s development. BJP boards have been formed in 13 municipal corporations. It was the first time that such a large number of boards were formed. The Chief Minister expressed gratitude to the voters and directed the Mayor to create a master plan for development.
Prior to the oath ceremony, Yogi suggested increasing and revitalizing the income of the municipal corporation
During the meeting after the victory, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath suggested to all the mayors to increase and revitalize the income of the municipal corporation. He had also proposed cleaning of the drains before the monsoon, increasing the income of the municipal corporation, making the cities beautiful and clean, and revitalizing them. Along with this, he also advised all the corporations to become self-reliant.