The BJP on Saturday wrested the Pasighat Municipal Council (PMC) from the Congress by winning six of the eight seats of the civic body in Arunachal Pradesh, while the janata dal united (JD(U), in its maiden contest in the Itanagar Municipal Corporation polls, bagged nine wards.
The saffron party in the state, won 10 seats, one short of the majority mark, in the 20-member Itanagar Municipal Corporation (IMC) while the NPP bagged one. Among the 10 wards won by the BJP in the Itanagar civic body polls, five candidates were elected unopposed, a State Election Commission official said.
The performance of the Janata Dal United in the civic polls assumes significance as the party received a major jolt in Arunachal Pradesh on Friday, with six of its seven MLAs shifting allegiance to the BJP.
Seventy-three per cent voting was recorded in the rural and civic polls in the state on December 22. According to the SEC, the BJP won 96 of the total 240 Zilla Parishad seats and 5,410 of the 8,291 gram panchayats without any contest.
At least 110 Gram Panchayat segments in the state have fallen vacant due to various reasons. The SEC will take a final call on conducting by-elections to these seats after the current electoral process is over, the official said.