UP Block Panchayat Election Results 2021: BJP claims victory, PM Modi lauds party workers

Lucknow, July 10: The counting of votes for UP Block Panchayat Chief has ended at 3 pm amid reports of post poll violence has been reported in some districts.

As per the latest update, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has won all seats of 8 blocks in Lucknow and Kannauj. The BJP has won 635 of the total 825 seats of block panchayat chiefs in Uttar Pradesh.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has claimed victory on 635 seats and attributed the success to the teamwork of the government and party organisation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and other top BJP leaders congratulated the state unit for the performance.

"The benefits that the people have got from the Yogi Adityanath government''s policies and public interest schemes have been reflected in the party''s massive victory. All the party workers deserve congratulations for this victory," PM Modi tweeted.

Chief Minister Adityanath also praised the State Election Commission for conducting peaceful and fair elections.

"The contribution of the State Election Commission in conducting the peaceful and fair elections was praiseworthy.

"Getting such a massive election process peacefully, in a state where democracy was mortgaged to professional criminals and mafia on the basis of caste religion and sects... Every citizen and party can fight election now peacefully," Yogi said.

The UP Block Panchayat Chief election results ahead of assembly polls next year, has come as a booster for Yogi Adityanath government.

On Friday, the State Election Commission announced that candidates on 349 posts have been elected unopposed. Out of which, the ruling BJP has claimed that 334 among the winning candidates belonged to the saffron party.

UP BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh said a state of development and good governance has been established by eradicating casteism and corruption after the formation of the party''s government under the leadership of Chief Minister Adityanath in Uttar Pradesh.

"This is the reason that even in the three-tier panchayat elections, the BJP is continuously achieving victories, which is the stamp of people''s approval on the policies of the BJP," he had said earlier in a statement.

Opposition parties, including the Samajwadi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Congress, have accused the ruling BJP of damaging democracy in the elections of kshetra panchayat chiefs and attacked it for allegedly showing "utter disrespect" to women during the election process.

They accused the government of misusing power and official machinery in the panchayat elections.

with PTI inputs