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Elections were held to elect mayors of 17 municipal corporations and 1,401 corporators; 198 chairpersons and 5,260 members of municipal councils; and 542 chairpersons of nagar panchayats and 7,104 members of nagar panchayats.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party won the mayoral elections in 10 of the 17 municipal corporations in Uttar Pradesh, results for which were announced on Saturday, virtually adding a third engine to its double-engine government.
Mayawati’s move to nominate 11 Muslims of 17 mayoral candidates while not fielding a single Brahmin signal that following BSP’s repeated poll routs she is rejigging her social math