Key Highlights
- They claimed that former Amravati Lok Sabha MP Navneet Rana aggressively dubbed the saffron party nominees as "dummies" and promoted contestants of her husband Ravi Rana's Yuva Swabhiman Party as the "real BJP candidates".
- Ahead of the civic polls, the BJP and MLA Ravi Rana's Yuva Swabhiman Party had broken their alliance.
- A local BJP leader had, however, said that Navneet Rana will continue to campaign for the saffron party candidates.
- In the 87-member Amravati Municipal Corporation, the BJP won 25 seats, Yuva Swabhiman Party and Congress got 15 each, AIMIM 12, NCP 11, Shiv Sena and BSP 3 each, Shiv Sena (UBT) 2 and Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi secured 1 seat.
- In the previous election, the BJP had won 45 seats, and the Yuva Swabhiman Party got three seats.
