Chandigarh:
The Aam Aadmi Party and Congress have suffered a major setback in the Chandigarh Mayor elections. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won this election. With the victory, BJP’s Harpreet Kaur Babla has been elected Mayor. According to sources, the councilors of Aam Aadmi Party and Congress have also cross voting in this mayor election. BJP has got a total of 19 votes in this election. While the Aam Aadmi Party and Congress got a total of 17 votes. Let me tell you that a total of 36 votes were cast.
Three councilors crossed cross votes
BJP has a total of 16 councilors, so three councilors of Aam Aadmi Party-Congress have crossed voting. If we talk about the number of Aam Aadmi Party and Congress councilors in Chandigarh Municipal Corporation, then it is 13 and 6. It is being told that a total of 35 councilors were present in the House during voting.
The Supreme Court made a former High Court judge supervisor
Let us tell you that a few days ago, in the Chandigarh Mayor election case, the Supreme Court appointed former judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court Jai Shri Thakur as independent supervisor. The court had said during that time that this time we will ensure independent, fair elections for the post of Chandigarh Mayor. The SC had appointed an independent observer for the Mayor election to be held on January 30 and expressed his wish that the elections should be fair this time.
Chandigarh Mayor Kuldeep Kumar filed an application in the Supreme Court and said that the election date should be 20 February. He had argued that the Supreme Court had declared him the winner on 20 February. Therefore, they are entitled to a one -year term.
Last year, court issued notice
The special thing is that on February 20 last year, a big decision of the Supreme Court came in the Chandigarh Mayor elections. The Supreme Court had again ordered to count votes. 8 invalid agreements were declared valid. SC decided after watching the ballot paper and watching the video. As a result, a show cause notice was also issued by reprimanding the returning officer Anil Christ.