Ayodhya Municipal Corporation

The Ayodhya Municipal Corporation, also called Ayodhya Nagar Nigam, is the governing civic body of the cities of Ayodhya and Faizabad in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Ayodhya Municipal Corporation Ayodhya Nagar Nigam
Seal of the Ayodhya Municipal Corporation
Type
Type	Municipal Corporation
History
Founded	1865 (160 years ago) (1865)[1]
Leadership
Mayor	Girish Pati Tripathi, BJP[2]
Municipal Commissioner	Jayendra Kumar, IAS
Structure
Seats	60
Political groups	NDA (28)   BJP (27)[3]   RLD (1) SP (17)   SP (17) Others (15)   IND (10)   BSP (3)   AAP (1)   PECP (1)
Length of term	5 years
Elections
Voting system	First past the post
Last election	11 May 2023
Next election	2028
Meeting place
Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh
Website
www.nagarnigamayodhya.in/en

Local self-government for Ayodhya and Faizabad was introduced in 1865. The two cities were administered jointly as a municipality.^[1] The joint municipality was split on 7 January 1978 into Ayodhya Municipal Council (Nagar Nigam Parishad Ayodhya) and Faizabad Municipal Corporation (Nagar Nigam Faizabad).^[4] The Government of Uttar Pradesh made an order in May 2017, merging the two municipal corporations as Ayodhya Municipal Corporation.^[4] The governance framework, jurisdiction and function of municipal corporations in Uttar Pradesh (UP) are governed by the UP Municipalities Act 1916, and the UP Municipal Corporations Act 1959.^[4] The election for the governing body is conducted by the State Election Commission, which has its office in Faizabad.^[5]

Current members

Ayodhya Municipal Corporation has a total of 60 members or corporators, who are directly elected after a term of 5 years. The council is led by the Mayor. The latest elections were held on 11 May 2023.^[6] Girish Pati Tripathi of the Bharatiya Janata Party is the current mayor of the city of Ayodhya.^[2]

Ward No	Ward Name	Name of Corporator	Party
Mayor: Girish Pati Tripathi
1	Abhiramdas	Sultan Ansari		IND
2	Purushottam Nagar	Gyanmati		SP
3	Jhalkari Bai	Geeta		BJP
4	Darshan Nagar	Gayatri		BJP
5	Avaidyanath	Rajkaran		BJP
6	Shyama Prasad Mukherjee	Vikas Kumar		BJP
7	Chaudhary Charan Singh	Mukesh Kumar		SP
8	Kaushal Puri	Dharma Veer		SP
9	Shivnagar	Shiv Kumar		BJP
10	Lala Lajpat Rai Nagar	Ramtirath		BJP
11	Krishna Nagar	Ramashankar Nishad		BJP
12	Paramhansa Ramchandra Das	Krishna Gopal		SP
13	Acharya Narendra Dev	Anoop Srivastava		BJP
14	Karpuri Thakur	Vikas Kumar		IND
15	Savarkar Nagar	Manish Singh		BJP
16	Maharana Pratap	Abrunnisha		AAP
17	Pt. Deendayal Nagar	Vishwajeet Yadav		BSP
18	Vashishtha Gund	Ranjana Yadav		IND
19	Sitakund	Vinay Kumar Jaiswal		BJP
20	Sant Ravidas Nagar	Deep Kumar		BJP
21	Hanuman Kund	Archana		BJP
22	Sardar Bhagat Singh	Santosh Singh		BJP
23	Sardar Patel Nagar	Indravati		SP
24	Chitragupt Nagar	Manisha Yadav		BJP
25	Atal Nagar	Jaynarayan Singh		BJP
26	Janaura	Dharmendra		BJP
27	Hanumat Nagar	Mohammad Rashid Salim		SP
28	Ashwini Puram	Jagat Narayan Yadav		SP
29	Ashfaq Ullah Khan	Akhilesh Pandey		SP
30	Dashrath Kund	Gyanmati		SP
31	Devkali	Anuj Das		BJP
32	Kabir Nagar	Chandan Singh		BJP
33	Saket Nagar	Kausar		SP
34	Nishadraj Nagar	Gunja Nishad		BSP
35	Ambedkar Nagar	Kafeel Ahmed		IND
36	Awadhpuri	Saurabh Singh Suryavanshi		IND
37	Kalyan Singh	Surya Kumar		RLD
38	Badi Devkali	Sarvjit Kumar		SP
39	Amaniganj	Suman Yadav		BJP
40	Mahatma Gandhi	Farheen Saba		BSP
41	Ram Manohar Lohia	Ram Bhavan		SP
42	Vikramaditya Nagar	Mithlesh Mishra		BJP
43	Shaheed Abdul Hameed	Salman Haider		IND
44	Jay Prakash Narayan	Anil Singh		BJP
45	Ramkot	Chameli Devi		BJP
46	Pateshwari Nagar	Kunti Pandey		IND
47	Jharkhandi	Brijendra		BJP
48	Lakshmi Sagar Nagar	Bakar Ahmed		SP
49	Mangal Pandey	Rajesh Kumar Gaur		BJP
50	Shivaji Nagar	Garima		BJP
51	Ashok Singhal Nagar	Ankit Tripathi		BJP
52	Laxman Ghat	Priya Shukla		SP
53	Chandra Shekhar Nagar	Vishal Pal		SP
54	Agrasen Nagar	Shahnoor Bano		SP
55	Maniramdas Cantonment	Abha Pandey		IND
56	Subhash Chandra Bose	Arjun Yadav		SP
57	Chandragupta Nagar	Mohammad Salim		PECP
58	Nanakpura	Meera		IND
59	Jhule Lal Nagar	Abhinav		IND
60	Swami Vivekananda	Harish Chandra		BJP

Elections

2023 AMC election

S.No.	Party Name	Party symbol	Number of Corporators[7][2]
01	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)		27
02	Samajwadi Party (SP)		17
03	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)		3
04	Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD)		1
05	Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)		1
06	Peace Party of India (PECP)		1
07	Independents		10

2017 AMC election

S.No.	Party Name	Party symbol	Number of Corporators[8][9]
01	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)		35
02	Shiv Sena (SHS)		1
03	Indian National Congress (INC)		2
04	Samajwadi Party (SP)		17
05	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)		1
06	Independents		4