Bhopal, July 17 (UNI) The debutant Aam Aad- mi Party (AAP) has made its entry into Madhya Pradesh politics after winning the mayoral post of Singrauli Municipal Corporation, the district which is filled with coal mining and also called – the ‘energy capital of India’. AAP candidate Rani Agrawal has won the election for the mayoral post against BJP’s Chandra Prakash Vishwakarma.
Agarwal won the election by a margin of 9,159 votes, leaving the BJP and Congress at second and third positions. AAP candidate received a total of 34,038 votes, BJP 24,879, and Congress nominee Arvind Chandel got 24,60 votes.
A year before the Assembly elections to be held in 2023, Agrawal’s victory has come as a morale booster for the AAP cadre in Madhya Pradesh.
AAP convenor and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal had campaigned for her in a road show in Singrauli. After Agrawal’s victory, Kejriwal congratulated her in a tweet, saying, “I congratulate Singrauli mayor elections winning candidate Rani Agrawal ji, other winners and party workers. You should continue to work hard for the people. The people across the country are liking the honest politics of the Aam Aadmi Party.”
Born in 1976, Rani Agrawal has been a sarpanch of the Baragwa village panchayat. She was also elected from ward 3 as a Zila panchayat member. Agrawal had also contested the 2018 Assembly elections from the Singrauli seat but had lost. She stood third and secured 32,500 votes. While the counting of votes for 11 municipal corporations in the first phase was underway (till the story was filed), the Congress won Jabalpur and led in Gwalior seats and the BJP was leading in both Bhopal and Indore.
