Chandigarh, May 14 -- Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini on Thursday hailed the BJP's victory in the civic body elections and said the people of Haryana have once again expressed their confidence in politics centred on development and good governance. He said people of Haryana have chosen the "triple-engine government" and reaffirmed trust in the development model.
Addressing a felicitation ceremony at the state BJP headquarters in Panchkula organised to honour the newly elected mayors, chairpersons and councillors of the urban local bodies, the chief minister said people have once again rejected the Congress' negative politics in civic body elections.
Haryana BJP president Mohan Lal Kaushik, party's Haryana affairs in-charge Satish Poonia, ministers Vipul Goel, Ranbir Gangwa, Arvind Sharma and Krishan Kumar Bedi, newly elected Panchkula Mayor Shyam Lal Bansal, Ambala Mayor Akshita Saini and Sonipat Mayor Sonipat Rajiv Jain were among those present on the occasion.
The BJP on Wednesday swept the municipal corporation polls, registering emphatic wins in Panchkula, Ambala and Sonipat. Barring Uklana, where a 23-year-old student won the municipal committee's president post as an independent candidate defeating the ruling party nominee, the BJP also swept other municipal bodies for which the polls were held on Sunday.
Addressing the gathering in Panchkula, Saini said that the BJP's historic victory in the civic body elections reflects the people's wholehearted support for the politics of development, good governance, transparency and nationalism under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He thanked the people of Haryana for giving the BJP an "overwhelming mandate".
He said that the people of Haryana, through these civic body elections, have "firmly rejected" the Congress party's politics of "dynasticism, falsehood, misinformation and negativity", while endorsing the BJP's development-oriented governance model.
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