Near clean sweep by YSRCP in municipal polls
The Hindu
Close to two years after coming to power, the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) handed yet another crushing defeat to the TDP and the BJP-Jana Sena Party alliance by winning all 11 municipal corporations and 69 out of 71 municipalities/nagar panchayats that went to polls in Andhra Pradesh on March 10.
The elections for Macherla (Guntur), Piduguralla (Guntur), Pulivendula (Kadapa) and Punganur (Chittoor) municipalities were unanimous and the counting of votes polled in Eluru Municipal Corporation had to be kept on hold due to a High Court order. Tadipatri in Anantapur and Mydukur in Kadapa are the only municipalities which the TDP won in the State amidst the pro-incumbency wave not witnessed in a long time while the JSP won a few divisions / wards more than its partner (BJP) in the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) and some municipalities.More Related News