05.05.23 Daily [Uttar Pradesh] UPPSC Current Affairs

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanaths efforts to empower Women received a major boost as six out of the 17 BJP mayors elected to municipal corporations are women.

The Bharatiya Janata Party fielded six female candidates for the position of mayor and all emerged victorious.

Besides, the candidate who received the highest number of votes and the one who won by the biggest are also women.

The Yogi governments Mission Shakti is accomplishing the dream of half the Population not only in Society but also in politics. Be it assembly, or the civic bodies , the government is providing women with a level playing field, allowing them to prove their worth, BJP vice-president Vijay Bahadur Pathak said here on Monday.

Sushma Kharwal got maximum votes of more than five lakh in Lucknow while Sunita Dayal of Ghaziabad defeated the BSP candidate with the highest margin of 2.87 lakh votes.

Hemlata Diwakar from Agra, Kamini Rathore from Firozabad, Pramila Pandey from Kanpur, Sunita Dayal from Ghaziabad and Archana Verma from Shahjahanpur have got the distinction of becoming the first citizens.

Hemlata Diwakar defeated the BSP candidate with a margin of over 1.88 lakh votes while Kanpurs Pramila Pandey won the electoral battle with a margin of over 1.77 lakh votes.

Shahjahanpurs Archana and Firozabads Kamini Rathore won by 30,000 and 26000 votes respectively.