Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Kuljeet Singh Sandhu received the election of senior Deputy Mayor of Chandigarh. Out of a complete 36 votes polled, the BJP obtained 19 votes and Congress+AAP obtained 16 votes. Meanwhile, one vote was declared invalid.
Why have been reelections necessitated?
Reelections for the posts of Senior Deputy Mayor and Deputy Mayor of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation have been held on Monday. Earlier on February 20, the Supreme Court had overturned the January 30 outcomes of the Chandigarh mayoral ballot during which the BJP candidate had emerged as an unlikely winner, and declared defeated AAP-Congress alliance candidate Kuldeep Kumar as the town’s new mayor.
The course of for election for the 2 posts was performed by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor Kumar who just lately assumed the cost of Chandigarh mayor.
Tempering allegations in Jan 30 polls
In the January 30 ballot, BJP’s Manoj Sonkar secured victory over Kumar to assert the mayorship. Allegations of poll tampering prompted AAP and Congress councillors to boycott the elections for senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor positions, leading to BJP’s Kuljit Sandhu and Rajinder Sharma profitable.
For the Monday elections, Congress councillors Gurpreet Singh Gabi and Nirmala Devi have been the candidates for the posts of senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor, respectively. The BJP has once more fielded Sandhu and Sharma.
Role of Mayor
Kumar just lately assumed the mayor’s duties on the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation following a Supreme Court ruling declaring him the civic physique chief. The mayor oversees the elections for senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor positions.
Chandigarh MP Kirron Kher, who’s a BJP member, additionally has voting rights as an ex-officio member of the company. The AAP has 10 members whereas the Congress has seven. The Shiromani Akali Dal has one councillor.
The Congress and the AAP are preventing the polls in alliance. The courtroom had additionally ordered the prosecution of the returning officer for the ballot, Anil Masih, a BJP chief, for his “misdemeanour”, after discovering severe faults within the conduct of the January 30 election.
(With PTI inputs)
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