BJP’s Kuljeet Singh Sandhu was elected to the post of Senior Deputy Mayor in the re-polling held on Monday in Chandigarh Municipal Corporation.
Elections are going on for the post of Deputy Mayor.
Sandhu got 19 votes while Congress’s Gurpreet Gabi got 16 votes. One vote was declared invalid.
The result was announced by the Mayor.
BJP has 17 councilors in the 35-member Municipal Corporation House. On February 19, after three AAP councilors joined the BJP, the BJP’s strength increased from 14 to 17. AAP has 10 members while Congress has seven members. Is a councilor of Shiromani Akali Dal.
Chandigarh MP Kirron Kher, who is a BJP member, also has voting rights as an ex-officio member of the corporation.
The Supreme Court on February 20 had overturned the January 30 results of the Chandigarh mayoral election, in which the BJP candidate had unexpectedly emerged the winner, and declared the defeated AAP-Congress alliance candidate Kuldeep Kumar as the city’s new mayor.
The election process for both the posts is being led by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councilor Kumar, who recently took over as Chandigarh mayor. BJP’s Manoj Sonkar became mayor by defeating Kumar in the voting held on January 30.
Alleging ballot tampering, AAP and Congress councilors boycotted the elections for the senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor posts, which led to the victory of Sandhu and Rajinder Sharma.
This time also BJP has fielded Sharma for the post of Deputy Mayor. His competition is with Nirmala Devi of Congress.
