This is the first time Lucknow will have a woman mayor since the UP Municipalities Act came into being in 1916.
LUCKNOW: Sanyukta Bhatia is set to become Lucknow’s first woman mayor in 100 years. The mayoral seat in Uttar Pradesh’s capital has been reserved for women.
Bhatia’s main adversaries were Congress’ Prema Awasthi and Samajwadi Party’s Meera Vardhan.
Bhatia’s husband Satish was a two-time MLA from Lucknow Cantonment and her son Prashant is a RSS Vibhag Karyavah (local functionary).
She was a popular choice within the party and even outside it for the post.Bhatia said she will be number one, no matter who is second or third.
She has been a member of the BJP since the party was formed in 1980.”Our time has come,” she had said when asked about a woman mayor for Lucknow, a city that has always been a VIP constituency and was once held by former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.
The civic polls are being seen as a referendum of Yogi Adityanath government’s performance in the past seven months.
