The BJP has won just eight out of the 40 zila panchayat seats in Ayodhya, a disappointment for the ruling party in the district on which the Centre and the state government have lavished much attention. The opposition Samajwadi Party claimed to have made major gains in the panchayat elections held last month, saying candidates it backed won 22 district level seats here. The Bahujan Samaj Party claimed its candidates won four zila panchayat seats in Ayodhya. Lakhs of candidates contested the panchayat elections across Uttar Pradesh for seats at four levels including the village and the district on free symbols allotted by the State Election Commission (SEC).
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Ayodhya: The BJP has won just eight out of the 40 zila panchayat seats in Ayodhya, a disappointment for the ruling party in the district on which the Centre and the state government have lavished much attention. The opposition Samajwadi Party claimed to have made major gains in the panchayat elections held last month, saying candidates it backed won 22 district level seats here. The Bahujan Samaj Party claimed its candidates won four zila panchayat seats in Ayodhya.
Lakhs of candidates contested the panchayat elections across Uttar Pradesh for seats at four levels including the village and the district on free symbols allotted by the State Election Commission (SEC). The parties had, however, extended support to those in the fray and are now claiming that the results have gone in their favour. Counting of the ballot papers began Sunday at over 800 centres across the state. Contrary to the BJP s claim of overall success in the state, its Ayodhya unit has conceded tha
Long lines of crammed ambulances, some carrying up to three dead patients, have formed before Lucknow’s two crematoriums since Thursday.
Some of the ambulances are having to wait two days or even longer in the queue with the dead and their relatives. It’s not just costing the bereaved families tens of thousands of rupees in ambulance charges but causing an ambulance shortage in the city.
At the root of the crisis, crematorium staff and relatives of the dead say, are two developments:
n One of the two electric chambers at the Baikunth Dham crematorium and the only one at Gullala Ghat each capable of incinerating a body in one hour have developed snags and stopped functioning.
Ram Belongs to SP as Much as Anyone Else : Akhilesh Yadav To Visit Ayodhya With Family
During his recent visit to Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said that Lord Rama belongs to SP as much as it belongs to anyone else on Monday. Yadav would be soon visiting the Lord Ram temple along with his family, he informed.
SP Chief reached his parliamentary constituency Azamgarh on Monday, from there he left for Lucknow but stopped midway in Ayodhya, where former SP Minister of State Tej Narayan Pandey and former Cabinet Minister Awadhesh Prasad welcomed at Tara Ji Resort. It is expected that Akhilesh will leave for Lucknow after paying a visit to Ram Lalla.