Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s efforts to empower women received a major boost as six out of the 17 BJP mayors elected to municipal corporations are women.
The Bharatiya Janata Party fielded six female candidates for the position of mayor and all emerged victorious.
Besides, the candidate who received the highest number of votes and the one who won by the biggest are also women.
“The Yogi government’s ‘Mission Shakti’ is accomplishing the dream of half the population not only in society but also in politics. Be it assembly, or the civic bodies elections, the government is providing women with a level playing field, allowing them to prove their worth,” BJP vice-president Vijay Bahadur Pathak said here on Monday.
Sushma Kharwal got maximum votes of more than five lakh in Lucknow while Sunita Dayal of Ghaziabad defeated the BSP candidate with the highest margin of 2.87 lakh votes.
Hemlata Diwakar from Agra, Kamini Rathore from Firozabad, Pramila Pandey from Kanpur, Sunita Dayal from Ghaziabad and Archana Verma from Shahjahanpur have got the distinction of becoming the first citizens.
Hemlata Diwakar defeated the BSP candidate with a margin of over 1.88 lakh votes while Kanpur’s Pramila Pandey won the electoral battle with a margin of over 1.77 lakh votes.
Shahjahanpur’s Archana and Firozabad’s Kamini Rathore won by 30,000 and 26000 votes respectively.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has achieved success in winning 88 out of 198 seats for municipal council president, out of which 44 seats have been secured by female candidates.
It includes one each from Amethi, Amroha, Unnao, Kannauj, Kushinagar, Kanpur Dehat, Kasganj, Kaushambi, Ghazipur, Gonda, Noida, Jalaun, Jaunpur, Jhansi, Deoria, Fatehpur, Balrampur, Bahraich, Baghpat, Muzaffarnagar, Mainpuri, Rampur, Lalitpur, Bijnor, Sonbhadra, and two each from Hathras, Etah, Pilibhit, Firozabad, Bareilly, Sitapur, and Banda as well as three each from Badaun and Bulandshahr.
A total of 90 Bharatiya Janata Party women have been elected as Nagar Panchayat presidents as well. There are as many as 544 nagar panchayat seats in Uttar Pradesh, of which results were declared for 543 with BJP bagging 191 seats.
The Bharatiya Janata Party women have won the maximum of five Nagar Panchayat president seats in Badaun, including from Gularia, Rudayan, Kunwargaon, Mudia and Dahgawan seats. The women have also bagged four seats in Kushinagar and Pratapgarh. Besides, Rekha, Maya Devi and Geeta Devi have won from Fariha, Eka and Makhanpur seats at Firozabad respectively.