Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 06:32pm on 14 Sep 2026,Monday Politics
The BJP has taken the lead in Rajasthan’s urban local body elections, winning 4,179 wards against Congress’s 3,613. The BJP secured majorities in Jaipur, Udaipur, Kota and Bhilwara municipal corporations. Congress won a majority in Bikaner and emerged as the largest party in Ajmer, where it won 37 of 80 wards. Jodhpur remained a close contest, with BJP and Congress winning 44 wards each. Independents won 2,273 wards across the state. Congress also scored a major win in Jhalawar, a stronghold of former chief minister Vasundhara Raje. Counting continued in some wards across Rajasthan’s 309 urban local bodies.
