The maiden contest for 33 GMC seats was a keenly-contested battle between ruling the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Opposition Congress as Gandhinagar parliamentary seat has been represented by senior BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani.
This victory of the Congress is being seen as a major setback to the BJP in general and Narendra Modi in particular.
Senior Congress leader Narhari Amin, ecstatic after the final tally of 18 and 15 between Congress and BJP respectively, said, "The people of Gandhinagar have voted against the Modi government. Congress has started year 2011 with hoisting victory flag in state capital Gandhinagar."
This is the beginning of end to Modi rule and will be reflected in 2012 Assembly polls. GMC elections have indicated that people want change, he said.
One hundred and sixteen candidates contested for 33 seats spread across 11 wards of the civic body which was formed following the Gujarat High Court order of September 17, 2009.
Gandhinagar was a notified area administered by the state government before it announced formation of the municipal corporation on March 17, 2010.
Out of eight municipal corporations of the state, Congress is now ruling two while BJP in six. Sixty per cent polling was registered for the civic poll that passed off almost peacefully, barring a stray incident of a verbal spat between the Congress and BJP worker.
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