Congress, NCP sweep civic body elections
- Monday, 12 December 2011 22:59
- TN RAGHUNATHA | Mumbai
In the local body polls held in the backdrop of allegations of corruption made by Anna Hazare against the DF Government in the State and UPA Government at the Centre, the ruling Congress and NCP - which contested the polls separately - captured power in more than half of the 132 Municipal Polls.
Though the exact number of municipal councils won by the various political parties in Sunday’s polls were not immediately known, informed official and political sources said that the ruling NCP had emerged as the party with a maximum number of municipal councils under its control.
An unconfirmed report said that the NCP had captured power in as many as 43, as against 29 municipal councils won by the Congress. The report pegged the total number of municipal councils won by the BJP at seven, Shiv Sena at three and MNS at one.
The statistics by the State Election Commission (SEC) in the evening said that that out of the results to 2,985 seats across the 132 municipal councils declared so far, NCP had emerged as the single largest party with 1,114 seats followed by Congress at 639 seats. According to SEC, the Shiv Sena has bagged 325 and BJP 189. The MNS has won 51 seats, while there are 207 victorious independents and local outfits and smaller parties have collectively bagged 460 seats.
However, the ruling Congress sought to project a picture that it had won more number of municipal councils than its ruling alliance partner, NCP. A senior Congress leader said that the Congress had bagged 39 municipal councils as against 23 won by the NCP. Besides, the two DF partners were all set to take over the reins of “15 to 18” municipal councils.
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