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BJP sweeps mayoral elections in Uttar Pradesh, wins 14 out of 16 seats

BJP has retained its saffron wave in Uttar Pradesh by winning 14 ... Read More
LUCKNOW: It is official. BJP has retained its saffron wave in Uttar Pradesh by winning 14 out of the 16 mayoral seats in the

urban local bodies elections

. BSP won two seats, Meerut and Aligarh, while Samajwadi Party and Congress could not open their accounts. BJP had won 11 of the 13 mayoral seats in 2012.

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BJP swept almost all major cities including Varanasi, Gorakhpur and Lucknow. It also won the newly constituted Ayodhya and Mathura seats. The prestigious Lucknow seat was won by BJP's Sanyukta Bhatia, who defeated SP's Meera Vardhan by a margin of around 80,000 votes.

The municipal elections also saw an emergence of BSP which won Meerut and Aligarh. In Meerut BSP's Sunita Verma and in Aligarh Mohammad Furkan won.

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