Lucknow: The results of the Uttar Pradesh block chief elections has been declared and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won a thumping 635 posts. While the Samajwadi Party (SP) candidates won in 103 block levels. Others managed to bag 87 posts.
The polling for 476 posts of block panchayat chiefs began on Saturday (July 10) in Uttar Pradesh at 11 am till 3 pm, and the results were announced soon after. Notably, around 349 candidates for the block panchayat chief posts were elected unopposed on Friday.
On Friday, State Election Commissioner Manoj Kumar said 1,778 nomination papers were received for 825 posts of the block panchayat chief, of which 68 were cancelled and 187 withdrawn. As a result, now 1,710 candidates will go into the elections on Saturday, he had said.
Meanwhile, as many as 6 cops have been suspended after the National Commission for Women (NCW) took suo motu congnisance of an incident wherein a woman was allegedly attacked when her sari was pulled in full public view in Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday (July 10). The women's panel wrote to state`s Director General of Police to take strict action against the culprits.
The election was marred with violence with several incidents of violence and gun shots reported from several distrcits during nomination filing on July 8. Violence was reported from various districts, including Siddharthnagar, Sitapur, Gorakhpur, Sambhal during the nomination of papers for the block pramukh elections. The majority of the incidents took place when the opposition candidates were prevented from filing their nomination papers.
