MP Janpad Panchayat polls: BJP claims victory in 121 of total 170 president seats, Congress says its score 89

He said in many districts not a single member of Congress got elected.Of the total 313 janpad panchayats in the state, the elections for the post of the president and the vice president were held in 170 janpad panchayats on Wednesday.

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Madhya Pradesh has claimed to have won the seats of president in 121 of the total 170 janpad panchayats, results of which were declared on Wednesday, while Congress said it has emerged victorious in 89 janpad panchayats.

In the rest 49 janpad panchayats, Congress-supported candidates won in 43, while the Gondwana Gantantra Party won the seats of president in two and Independents in four, according to BJP sources. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said the BJP has given a stellar performance in the polls. He said in many districts not a single member of Congress got elected.

Of the total 313 janpad panchayats in the state, the elections for the post of the president and the vice president were held in 170 janpad panchayats on Wednesday. The voting for the remaining 143 janpad panchayats will take place on Thursday, an official said. These elections were held without party symbols.

Counting was taken up immediately after voting, the official said.

Elected panchayat members vote to elect the president and vice president of janpad panchayats. Chouhan said the BJP-supported candidates have won 121 janpad panchayat president seats.

Madhya Pradesh Congress media cell chairman KK Mishra claimed candidates supported by Congress have captured 89 panchayats.

Mishra claimed local BJP leader Devi Singh Dhurve joined Congress in Nasrullaganj in Sehore, the home district of the chief minister, as he was not allowed to file the nomination and raised slogans in favour of the Congress party.

''Out of the total 170 results announced today, BJP's candidates won the post of president in 121 janpad panchayats and there are many districts in the state where not a single member of Congress got elected,” Chouhan said in a statement.

Congratulating newly-elected janpad panchayat presidents and vice-presidents, Chouhan said BJP aims to make blocks and villages self-reliant while realising the larger goal of making India 'aatmanirbhar'.

The chief minister said the state BJP government has carried out a lot of development works in villages, but now it will focus on roads, drainage, anganwadis, schools and markets among others.

The government will focus on making villages clean, providing drinking water through the tap in each household and connecting left-out villages with roads like others.

The BJP had won a majority of corporators’ posts in the local and urban body elections held in the first phase on July 6, the results of which were announced on July 17. The ruling party had, however, lost key mayoral posts in Gwalior, Jabalpur, Chhindwara and Singrauli to opposition Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the 11 civic bodies.