By giving its nod for sitting Allahabad Mayor Abhilasha Gupta, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday announced its 14th Mayoral candidate in Uttar Pradesh. With this, the party has announced 14 of the 16 Mayoral candidates in the state. Gupta was elected as Mayor as an independent candidate in 2012 civic body elections and is the wife of cabinet minister Nand Gopal Gupta alias Nandi. On Sunday night, state BJP president Mahendra Nath Pandey had declared Sanyukta Bhatia as Mayoral candidate for Lucknow and Mridula Jaiswal for Varanasi. Other Mayoral candidates announced late Sunday night were Dr Rajiv Agarwal from Aligarh, Dr Mukesh Arya Bandhu from Mathura, Ramtirath Singhal from Jhansi, Vinod Agarwal from Moradabad, Sanjeev Walia from Saharanpur and Asha Sharma from Ghaziabad. The Urban Local Bodies poll is likely to see the BJP coming out with its election manifesto, which may be similar in nature to its Lok Sankalp Patra, brought out before Assembly polls. The three-phase civic polls from 22 November will be the rulingparty’s first electoral test after it stormed to power afterthe Assembly poll in March this year.
“The party is planning to come up with an election manifesto for ULB elections. The aim is to ensure overall improvement of municipal corporations and other civic bodies. Through the manifesto, the party’s endeavor will be to establish a direct connect with the public and find alternatives to their problems,” state BJP spokesperson Rakesh Tripathi said in Lucknow on Monday. “The manifesto will be a pledge to simplify complex tax structure in urban, local bodies and simultaneously increase revenue of municipal bodies by widening the tax base. It will also focus on strengthening urban public transportat and improve drinking water,” he said.
Exuding confidence of his party sweeping the ULB poll, Tripathi said, “We aim to win all 16 municipal corporations. It will be a hattrick for us after the massive wins in 2014 Lok Sabha and 2017 Assembly polls.” As per the election schedule, 24 districts will go to polls on 22 November, while 25 districts on 26 November, and 26 districts on 29 November. Counting of votes polled for 16 nagar nigam, 198 nagar palika parishad and 438 nagar panchyart will be done on 1 December. More than 3.32 crore voters will be eligible to cast their ballots at 36,269 polling booths and 11,389 polling stations.
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