The outcome could be seen as an impact of the ongoing women empowerment campaign of the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh.
"The BJP+ (BJP and its allies) has won 67 out of 75 seats of zila panchayat chairpersons. For these unprecedented results, I thank the people of the state and hardworking party workers," State BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh said.
Chairpersons of 22 zila panchayats in 22 districts of the state were declared elected unopposed on Tuesday. Of these, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 21 seats, while the Samajwadi Party grabbed one seat in Etawah.
Two recently elected village heads in Uttar Pradesh panchayat polls have died, officials said on Friday.
Additional returning officer (ARO) Virendra Kumar has been booked for cheating, forgery and fraud on a complaint from Returning Officer Sunil Kumar, a senior police official said.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the Aam Aadmi Party have claimed major wins in the elections which were held in four phases last month, amid a surge in coronavirus cases
UP Gram Panchayat Election 2021 Results: Voting for the panchayat polls in Uttar Pradesh ended on April 29 with a 75-per cent voter turnout in the fourth and final phase.
Priyanka Gandhi on Saturday slammed the UP Govt for conducting panchayat elections amid COVID 19
Over 5.27 lakh candidates are in the fray for more than 2.10 lakh seats across 17 districts in this round of the election.
The Allahabad HC has asked UP State Election Commission (UPSEC) why it failed to check non-compliance of Covid guidelines during the panchayat polls.
A head constable on panchayat poll duty died due to low oxygen level during election duty.
Voting for the third phase of the panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh began on Monday with more than 2.72 lakh candidates
UP Panchayat Chunav 2021: Four people suffered minor injuries in a clash between two groups at a booth in Agra, but the polling was largely peaceful in the state.
Almost one-and-a-half years after he was expelled from the BJP on charges of rape, former MLA Kuldeep Singh Senger's wife, Sangeeta Senger has been made party candidate for the upcoming panchayat elections.
Mulayam Singh Yadav's niece Sandhya Yadav is contesting the Zila Panchayat elections on a BJP ticket from Mainpuri.
Diksha Singh, a native of Chittori village in the Baksha area of the district, told reporters at a hotel on Friday said that she studied till Class III at the village after which she moved to Mumbai and then to Goa with her father.
The three-tier Panchayat elections in the state will be held in four phases and all the major political parties in the state are gearing up to fight it with full strength.
AAP leaders in the state are optimistic that the party would get a good response from the people.
The much-awaited panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh will be held in four phases on April 15, April 19, April 26 and April 29, the state Election Commission has announced. Counting of votes will be done on May 2.
The high court bench of Justice Rituraj Awasthi and Manish Thakur also directed the state administration to ensure that the UP Panchayat Election process is completed by May 25.
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