BJP sweeps Gujarat Panchayat elections, clean of congress

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The Bharatiya Janata Party swept the local bodies elections bagging 21 of the 24 district panchayats, 162 of the 208 taluka panchayats and 41 of the 53 municipalities in Gujarat Saturday.

As the Congress slipped to perhaps its worst ever showing, state party president Siddhartha Patel sent his resignation to party chief Sonia Gandhi, accepting moral responsibility for the dismal results.

The Gujarat Congress Legislature Party leader Shaktisinh Gohil also sent in his resignation to Gandhi, accepting joint responsibility for the party's poor performance.

The local bodies election results declared Saturday were worst than even the 2005 elections when the Congress claimed six of the 24 district panchayats.

In the elections to the 208 of the 225 taluka panchayats in the state, the Congress, which had 81 of the taluka panchayats under its control before the polls, ended up worth only 38. The BJP's strength went up from 127 to 162.


As usual, anti-modi pro congrASS Indian medias kept mum after the historic victory of BJP. Recently, these seculer medias kept mum when:

1) Gujarat govt. won in 2nd for the United Nation Public Service Award for improving transparency, accountability, responsiveness in public service.

2) Gujarat govt. got first prize for drinking water supply programme and user level water quality.

3) In the recent municipality election

4) And recently panchayat election result.


clean sweep of congress


BJP wipes out Cong in local body polls

Grabs 47 Of 53 Civic Seats, 22 Of 24 Panchayats

Gandhinagar: The Congress is down and out in Gujarat. Chief minister Narendra Modi-led BJP on Saturday swept the local body polls, crushing the Congress completely in panchayats and municipalities.
The win clearly underlines the Gujarat CM’s complete domination on the political arena, where the Congress has been decimated systematically during the nine years of his rule. The BJP has made clear dents in Congress’ traditional vote banks—tribals, OBCs, Dalits and Muslims.

Adding insult to injury after the capture of six cities earlier this month, the BJP stormed into Congress pockets, where stalwarts such as Ahmed Patel Bharatsinh Solanki, Dinsha Patel and Tushar Chaudhary held sway.

Of 24 district panchayats, the Congress managed to win just two, Gandhinagar and Tapi. These are the smallest of all panchayats in the state. The BJP won 47 out of the 53 municipalities and most of the 208 taluka panchayats. If the defeat in Anand is a jolt to Solannki and Dinsha, the eclipse of Bharuch, where tribals and Muslims form a formidable force, suggests a setback to Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s political adviser, Ahmed Patel. The loss in Valsad and Surat is a disturbing sign for Tushar Chaudhary.

Congress retained Gandhinagar district panchayat, a big relief for battered Congressman Shankarsinh Vaghela, whose son Mahendrasinh managed to consolidate Rajputs and OBC Thakores behind him. The Congress victory in Tapi is at best an isolated win .

GPCC chief Siddharth Patel resigned from the post on Saturday following the humiliating defeat.

 

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Re: BJP sweeps Gujarat Panchayat elections, clean of congres

the clean swipe of congress from gujrat ...after bribeing media,Ngo's and other fake organisation and spending crore of money to defame modi name then also guj people including muslim kick the ass of congrass ... i think Congress should close down their Gujarat Unit. Their negative campaign against Modi is paying him off well.

Muslims drifting towards BJP in Gujarat, says BJP Muslim women leader

Rajkot, Oct 14 (IANS) If newly elected corporator Babi Sama is to be believed, Muslims of Gujarat are shedding their antipathy to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The first Muslim woman to be elected on BJP ticket in the just held municipal corporation elections, Sama is convinced that there is a change of heart in the Muslim community.
"This is happening not just in my ward but all over the state," Sama told IANS after scoring an emphatic win here. "Muslims are moving towards the BJP."

She credits the development to Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
"It is mainly because of the chief minister. I have also not encountered any ill-will nor has my husband who has been with the BJP for 15 years. We have been comfortable in the party of our choice all along," she said.

Sama is considered a star in the BJP's spectacular show in six major cities of Gujarat in elections to municipal corporations that took place Sunday.

Sama, 43, is the wife of Habib Sama, a two-term general secretary of the BJP minority cell of Rajkot city. They have four children -- three sons and a daughter.
"The people have voted overwhelmingly for Chief Minister Narendra Modi," she said, crediting him with the state's economic and infrastructure development.
Sama was elected from ward 18 of the Rajkot Municipal Corporation in the Jungleshwar-Rukhadiapura area.

She says that in earlier years, fellow Muslims would chide them for not working for the Congress -- the community's traditional first choice in politics.
Over the years, as she and her husband came to be identified as the Muslim face of the BJP in Gujarat, opinions began to change.

"A stage has now been reached where the development oriented initiatives of Narendra Modi are drawing the Muslim community towards the party." she said.
According to Sama, both Hindus and Muslims desire development. When they see it happening, people are likely to be drawn towards the party behind it.
"Chief Minister Modi is a magnet in this regard who has mesmerized people with his hard work and people oriented governance," she said.


"Of the total 33,600 voters in our ward, almost 9,400 are Muslims. A fair number voted for the BJP this time," she says. The bulk voting helped her to defeat Manjulaben Hindoja of the Congress.