Mumbai: The Congress party on Monday swept away the elections for Nanded Municipal Corporation of the state by winning 41 out of the total 81 seats. The Congress, which shares power with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) at the state level, went alone in elections to the 81-member Nanded Municipal Corporation, held on Sunday. While NCP secured 10 seats, Shiv Sena got 14 and BJP won on two seats.
Reacting to the victory, former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan, who led the party in the polls, said the win was possible due to "teamwork" among Congress workers. "I will give all credit to party workers. The victory was a result of teamwork and stress on developmental issues and inspiration of our leader Sonia Gandhi," Chavan said, terming the results a victory of "people's power".
Meanwhile, NCP leader Pratap Chikhlikar, a staunch rival of Chavan in Nanded, alleged that the Congress "used money power" to win the elections. Nanded is the home constituency of Chavan and the polls were considered crucial for his political future.
Chavan has been looking at consolidating his position in Nanded and the larger Marathwada region to fill the leadership vacuum created in Congress following the demise of former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshkmukh....
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03:49 PM, Oct 15, 2012
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) are likely to enter into a pre-poll alliance for the Nanded municipal elections. The elections to the civic body is slated for October. This is for the first time that Raj Thackeray's MNS and the Shiv Sena, whose supremo is his uncle Bal Thackeray, will enter into an alliance for any elections. While the local units of both the parties...
07:40 PM, Sep 17, 2012
New Delhi: Defeated in municipal corporation polls in Punjab, Congress on Monday alleged that the ruling SAD-BJP combine had unleashed unprecedented "state terror" and reduced the elections to a "joke". "There was no election in Punjab. It was a joke. It was complete subversion of the democratic process through state terror and intimidation," party spokesman Manish Tewari said. Tewari, who is himself a Lok Sabha member from the state, claimed...
02:45 AM, Jun 12, 2012
New Delhi: The results of the West Bengal civic polls will be declared on Tuesday. An 86 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the crucial election to six municipalities across the state on Monday, the first major test for the Trinamool-Congress alliance after its landslide victory in the 2011 Assembly polls on the back of a huge anti-incumbency wave. All 129 seats in the six civic bodies - Durgapur,...
08:58 AM, Jun 05, 2012
Kolkata: Several party workers of the Trinamool Congress and the CPI(M) clashed on Sunday as five municipalities across the state went to polls. The police had to resort to a mild lathicharge to control the situation. The Trinamool Congress and the Congress are contesting separately in these polls. The civic polls are a testing ground for both parties for the larger panchayat elections next year. The virtual split in the...
01:35 PM, Jun 03, 2012
In this MCD election, parties are promising underground and multi-level parking lots to woo voters. ...
07:04 AM, Apr 15, 2012
Nagpur: The Congress-NCP led alliance is locked in a tough battle in the Nagpur Municipal Corporation with the ruling BJP-Shiv Sena combine which is facing anti-incumbency factor as well as allegations of misrule and corruption ahead of the civic polls in Maharashtra. Two top city-based leaders -- the local MP and General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), Vilas Muttemwar and BJP National President Nitin Gadkari -- are...
03:06 PM, Feb 14, 2012
CHENNAI: The DMK on Sunday achieved a surprise victory at the Chennai Corporations Zonal Chairman elections after its candidate, Joseph Samuel, councillor from ward 85, won in Zone 7 following alleged cross voting by AIADMK councillors. However, AIADMK won the rest of the 14 zones unopposed. While the elections for the first six zones, which began at 9.30 am, were completed swiftly as only one candidate filed nominations in each...
08:32 AM, Nov 21, 2011
Ahmedabad: After defeating Congress in the municipal corporation polls, the BJP on Saturday trounced the opposition party in the panchayats and municipalities elections here. The counting for elections of 24 district panchayats, 208 taluka panchayats and 53 municipalities held on Thursday, was held on Saturday. Out of the 24 district panchayats the BJP won clear majority in 21 while Congress got majority in Gandhinagar and Tapi. The district panchyats of...
08:30 PM, Oct 23, 2010
CPI chief A B Bardhan admits on
Devil's Advocate that the Left Front has become 'swollen-headed, arrogant' but believes Trinamool isn't fit to rule W Bengal. ...
04:48 PM, Jun 06, 2010
Mumbai: Shiv Sena on Friday slammed BJP for "joining hands with Congress" in Aurangabad civic body election and questioned its ally's fickle ways. "Would a true nationalist ever have a 'nikaah' (marriage) with Congress?" Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray asked in an editorial in party mouthpiece 'Samaana'. "What did our 'best friend' (BJP) gain by allying with Congress? Aurangzeb, in his grave, must be happy seeing this," he said, mentioning...
04:53 PM, Jun 04, 2010
TMC chief alleges the Bengal govt has involved police to spread communal violence in Muslim pockets. ...
08:41 AM, May 17, 2010
The CPI-M finds itself in an mess in West Bengal after it announced the date of municipal elections. ...
09:02 AM, Apr 21, 2010
The Nationalist Congress Party has swept the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation winning 55 out of 89 seats. ...
04:51 PM, Apr 12, 2010
Shocker for actor-politician during Hyderabad poll campaign. ...
01:52 PM, Nov 18, 2009
CM Sheila Dikshit has virtually refused to join the Cong campaign for the upcoming Delhi Municipal elections. ...
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Apart form the Afzal issue, BJP also continued its tirade on Rahul Gandhi for his comments on the Babri Masjid. ...
11:23 PM, Mar 21, 2007
NCP leader indicates his party is willing to partner with Cong in municipal polls for the sake of secularism. ...
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