Chhattisgarh: Local bodies elections

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Urban civic bodies

2015: Cong wins 7/ 11 urban bodies; shares nagar panchayats with BJP

The Times of India Jan 01 2016

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Within days of the saffron juggernaut stopping in Madhya Pradesh civic polls owing to a resurgent Congress, BJP suffered a huge jolt in adjoining Chhattisgarh where Congress bagged seven out of 11 urban civic bodies.

The results were particularly embarrass ing for BJP as urban areas form the party's core support base. The civic elections were held on December 28. Congress also retained the crucial mayoral post in Bhilai Municipal Corporation. In MP civic body polls, Congress had wrested five of the eight urban civic body seats.

The polls were held in one municipal corporation, four municipal councils and six nagar panchayats. Of six nagar panchayat s, BJP and Congress won three each with the ruling party losing control over two it earlier held.

The biggest setback for BJP was in Bhilai, where it failed to wrest control of the 70 wards from Congress, which retained the mayoral post with its 27-year-old candidate Devendra Yadav inflicting a heavy defeat on his BJP rival Vidya Ratan Bhasin.

2021

Dec 25, 2021: The Times of India

RAIPUR: Nearly four months after a power struggle from within rocked the Congress in Chhattisgarh, the ruling party has registered a thumping victory in elections to 15 urban civic bodies — politically strengthening the position of chief minister Bhupesh Baghel and further relegating the main opposition BJP in a state it ruled for 15 years.

In September, CM Bhupesh Baghel looked embattled as rumours of a leadership change gained momentum on the speculation that after Congress won the 2018 elections, there was a formula for midterm change of guard.

While the election results came as a shot in the arm for Baghel, BJP appeared shocked over the drubbing since Congress won all six nagar panchayats, four out of five municipal councils and two of four municipal corporations. Even in the other two corporations, the margin is so narrow that Congress could well rope in independents and ensure it gets the mayor’s post. PCC president Mohan Markam said the ruling party put up an impressive performance across the state, from tribal Bastar in the south to Surguja in the north and the plains. “This victory is a recognition of our government’s policies and programme, and it’s also an indication that people have reposed faith in the government under the leadership of chief minister Baghel,” he said.

BJP acknowledged it’s a sign to look within. “The outcome of the civic polls is definitely a situation that calls for introspection within the party as to what went wrong. But misuse of power by the ruling party was also visible everywhere,” said senior BJP leader and former minister Chandrasekhar Sahu, adding that the party now has to be “more aggressive in raising omissions and commissions of the Congress government”. Since coming to power in a landslide victory in 2018, Congress has won three assembly byelections.