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Congress will form boards in over 50 municipal bodies: Dotasra

JAIPUR: PCC chief and education minister Govind Singh Dotasra on Sunday claimed that the Congress would form governing boards in more than 50 of the 90 municipal bodies that went to polls, while BJP will be limited to just 30. “In the 2015 municipal polls, BJP had formed governing boards in 60 urban bodies and Congress could form in only 25. Compared to the 2015 tally, we are now going to double our numbers and the BJP will get reduced to half its previous numbers,” Dotasra said addressing the media at the party headquarters here. Dotasra added, “After what they did to farmers by passing the farm laws, to Congress by destabilising its elected government and by indulging in negativity during the corona times, the people of Rajasthan have taught a lesson to BJP.” Dotasra said, "Ever since the Congress government was formed in the state, the party has formed governing boards in 35 of 49 urban bodies that went to polls in November 2019, in four out of six municipal corporations where elections were held in November 2020 and in 36 out 50 urban bodies in December 2020." The PCC chief objected to BJP state president Satish Poonia’s alleged statement over the legal dispute on the Congress-BSP merger in the state. "How can the BJP state president say that the Supreme Court will soon decide against the Congress-BSP merger?" Dotasra said the Congress strategy of not fielding candidates in some of the municipal wards paid off. "In Nokha, we did not give Congress symbols and the party supported candidates have won," he said. The NCP got clear majority in Nokha municipal body. AICC general secretary in-charge of the state Ajay Maken would be coming on February 2. "He will discuss how more Congressmen can be assimilated in the government and the organisation," said Dotasra.

The Times of India

2021-02-01

Jaipur