Rani Agrawal of the AAP defeated Chandra Prakash Vishwakarma of the BJP to win the race for mayor.
The newly formed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) entered Madhya Pradesh politics after being elected mayor of Singrauli Municipal Corporation, a district known as the “energy capital of India” due to its abundance of coal mines.
Rani Agrawal of the AAP defeated Chandra Prakash Vishwakarma of the BJP to win the race for mayor.
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By a margin of 9,159 votes, Agrwal defeated the BJP and the Congress to claim victory, placing them in second and third, respectively. 34,038 votes were cast for the AAP candidate; 24,879 for the BJP; and 24,604 for Congress candidate Arvind Chandel.
Agrawal’s victory has given the AAP cadre in Madhya Pradesh some much-needed encouragement a year before the 2024 Assembly elections.
Arvind Kejriwal, the leader of the AAP and the chief minister of Delhi, supported her during a road show in Singrauli. Upon her victory, Kejriwal tweeted his congratulations to Agrawal, writing, “I extend my congratulations to the other victors, party members, and Rani Agrawal, who won the race for mayor of Singrauli.” You should keep putting in a lot of effort for the people. People all around the nation appreciate the Aam Aadmi Party’s sincere politics. “
Rani Agrawal, who was born in 1976, has served as sarpanch of the Baragwa village panchayat. She was furthermore chosen to serve on the zila panchayat from ward 3. Agrawal ran for the Singrauli seat in the 2018 Assembly elections, but he was unsuccessful. With 32,500 votes, she received 32,500th place.
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The Congress won the seats in Jabalpur and Gwalior, and the BJP was in the lead in both Bhopal and Indore when the votes for 11 municipal corporations in the first round were being counted (till the story was filed).
With its female candidate winning the position of corporator in Khandwa city, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) recorded its first electoral success in Madhya Pradesh during the urban body elections.
11 municipal corporations, including Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Sagar, Satna, Singrauli, Chhindwara, Khandwa, Burhanpur, and Ujjain, conducted elections for mayor. There are a total of 101 people running for mayor.
On July 20, ballots for the second round of the MP municipal elections will be counted.
