BJP wins Gwalior Municipal Corporation’s Mayor post

Bhopal: The Bharatiya Janata Party candidate, Ms Sameeksha Gupta, on Tuesday defeated her Congress rival, Ms Uma Sengar, with a margin of over 33,000 votes to win the post of mayor in the Gwalior Municipal Corporation elections.

The counting for the first phase of elections held on December 11 for 122 civic bodies out of the total 268 in Madhya Pradesh began on Tuesday and the first result for the Mayor's post in Gwalior went in favour of the ruling BJP, state election office sources said.

Since ballot papers were used in the voting, the counting is going on at a slow pace and the entire results for the first phase of elections would come out late in the night.

In Khandwa, the Madhya Pradesh tribal welfare minister Vijay Shah's wife, Ms Bhavna Shah, defeated her Congress rival Ms Sunita Sakargaye for the Mayor's post by a margin of 7,879 votes.

The counting for the remaining civic bodies, elections of which were held on Monday, will take place on December 17, they said.

BJP's mayoral candidates were also leading in Bhopal, Indore and Jabalpur, they said.