Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav alleged that the BJP government has politicised bureaucracy in the state. He further alleged that a large number of bureaucrats have turned into BJP cadre and worked to benefit the ruling party by interfering in the vote counting process and manipulating the voter list.
The SP president said that the chief development officers and other officers in several districts and Manipuri changed the poll results and the defeated candidates were declared elected.
Mainpuri is the Lok Sabha constituency of Dimple Yadav, wife of Akhilesh Yadav. He said the government should take cognisance of the nonpartisan conduct of bureaucrats and place such officers under suspension. He added that the SP would provide the list of such officers along with their photographs.
Akhilesh, who is also the leader of opposition in UP assembly, said that the BJP “lost miserably in seats located just outside city limits despite adopting every trick” in the Uttar Pradesh urban local body elections.
The BJP on May 13 registered wins on all 17 mayoral seats — Varanasi, Lucknow, Ayodhya, Jhansi, Bareilly, Mathura-Vrindavan, Moradabad, Saharanpur, Prayagraj, Aligarh, Shahjahanpur, Ghaziabad, Agra, Kanpur, Gorakhpur, Firozabad and Meerut. It also won 813 of the 1,420 corporator seats while the opposition Samajwadi Party bagged 191 and Bahujan Samaj Party 85.
According to the State Election Commission, the BJP won 191 (35.11%) of the 544 posts of Nagar Panchayat chairpersons while Independent candidates 195 (35.85%).
The Samajwadi Party won 78 posts while the Bahujan Samaj Party clinched victories in 37. The Congress won 14 seats.
Independent candidates asserted themselves on the Nagar Panchayat members’ seats as well, winning 4,824 of the 7,177 (67.21%) available.
The BJP won 1,403 seats, followed by the Samajwadi Party with 485 and Bahujan Samaj Party 215. The Congress bagged 77 seats and Rashtriya Lok Dal won 38.
The urban local body elections were held in two phases on May 4 and 11 to elect 17 mayors and 1,401 corporators. As many as 19 corporators were elected unopposed, the commission had said.
Voting was also held to elect 198 chairpersons and 5,260 members of Nagar Palika Parishads, 542 chairpersons of Nagar Panchayats and 7,104 members of Nagar Panchayats.
