BJP sweep in Gujarat local body polls reflects public trust in party: Virendra Kumar

Union minister Virendra Kumar on Tuesday hailed the BJP's decisive victory in the Gujarat local body polls and said the people's mandate reflected their trust in the party leadership, its development agenda and corruption-free governance. The BJP swept the local body elections by winning all 15 municipal corporations and 33 out of 34 district panchayats in the state. In a post on X, the minister for social justice and empowerment said, ''Heartfelt respect to the people of Gujarat for the overwhelming support received by the BJP in the local body elections. ''The results have once again proven that the public trusts leadership, considers development as the benchmark, and chooses only corruption-free, good governance.'' The senior BJP leader said the results achieved that under the guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel reflected public trust and the hard work of the party workers. Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked the people of Gujarat for what he termed a ''sweeping mandate'' in the local body polls, saying the bond between the state and the BJP has grown even stronger. Modi said people of Gujarat voted for the politics of good governance, and assured that the party would work harder to take the state to new heights of progress. Though final results for 250 taluka panchayats and 84 municipalities were awaited, data from the State Election Commission (SEC) showed that the ruling BJP won most of these local bodies while some were bagged by the Congress, AAP and Independents. Polling was held on Sunday for 15 municipal corporations, 84 municipalities, 34 district panchayats and 260 taluka panchayats. The BJP emerged a clear winner in the municipal corporations of Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar and Rajkot, besides the newly created municipal corporations of Navsari, Gandhidham, Morbi, Vapi, Anand, Nadiad, Mehsana, Porbandar and Surendranagar.

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