Officers counting votes for the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) elections at Gandhi Engineering College (GEC), in Surat on Tuesday. (ANI Photo) The BJP registered a landslide victory in the Surat Municipal Corporation elections, winning 115 of the 120 seats. The AAP, which won 27 seats in the 2021 civic body elections, has been reduced to four seats and the Congress, which had no seats in the previous city body, managed to win a seat. After the results are out, the BJP said in a release that there won’t be an official Opposition in the city body. To qualify for the Opposition Leader position, a party must have at least 10% of the total seats in the elected body. Surat BJP president Paresh Patel dedicated the victory to the people of Surat and said they had “shown faith in the BJP” and “appreciated the development works” done in Surat by the previous city body.…