nChhattisgarh’s ruling Congress managed to ensure victory of its mayoral candidates in all the eight municipal corporations, out of the ten in the state, in which elections were held recently.
These corporations are Rajnandgaon, Jagdalpur, Bilaspur, Durg, Dhamtari, Chirmiri, Raigarh and Raipur.
Elections in Ambikapur and Korba municipal corporations are yet to be held.
Congress’s Hema Deshmukh (Rajnandgaon), Ramsharan Yadav (Bilaspur) and Safira Sahu (Jagdalpur) were elected earlier while Ejaj Dhebar (Raipur), Vijay Dewangan (Dhamtari), Kanchan Jaiswal (Chirmiri), Dhiraj Bakliwal (Durg), Janki Katju (Raigarh) were elected on Monday.