# 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.
Local self-government for Ayodhya and Faizabad was introduced in 1865. The two cities were administered jointly as a municipality. The joint municipality was split on 7 January 1978 into Ayodhya Municipal Corporation and Faizabad Municipal Corporation. The Government of Uttar Pradesh made an order in May 2017, merging the two municipal corporations as Ayodhya Municipal Corporation. 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. The election for the governing body is conducted by the State Election Commission, which has its office in Faizabad.

## 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. Girish Pati Tripathi of the Bharatiya Janata Party is the current mayor of the city of Ayodhya.
| 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 | Number of Corporators |
| 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 | Number of Corporators |
| 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 |