BJP sweeps urban body polls in Chhattisgarh, wins all 10 mayor posts

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which defeated Congress in the assembly and Lok Sabha elections in Chhattisgarh, won the majority of civic body seats in the state, including all 10 mayoral positions. The vote counting process for the general elections held in 173 urban bodies, including 10 municipal corporations, 49 municipal councils, and 114 nagar panchayats, commenced on Saturday at 9am with postal ballots, followed by the counting of Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) votes from 9.30am.

Apart from winning the mayoral post in all 10 municipal corporations, the BJP won the chairperson post in 35 municipal councils and 81 nagar panchayats, according to the result trends provided by state poll officials.