BJP wins Chandigarh mayor polls in firs BJP wins Chandigarh mayoral elections with 16 votes to its mayor candidate Manoj Sonkar. The Congress mayor candidate got 12 votes. 8 votes were declared invalid.
Chandigarh Mayor Polls 2024: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won the Chandigarh mayor elections on Tuesday. BJP candidate Manoj Sonkar won the post of mayor by defeating AAP’s Kuldeep Kumar. BJP won the polls with 16 votes to its mayor candidate Manoj Sonkar. The Congress mayor candidate got 12 votes. 8 votes were declared invalid.
The senior deputy mayor post saw Kuljeet Sandhu of the BJP facing off against Congress’s Gurpreet Singh Gabi, while the deputy mayor position was contested between BJP’s Rajinder Sharma and Congress’s Nirmala Devi.
This contest signified the first face-off between the NDA and the INDIA bloc ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, following Nitish Kumar’s unexpected switch.
#WATCH | BJP wins Chandigarh mayoral elections with 16 votes to its mayor candidate Manoj Sonkar. The Congress & AAP mayor candidate Kuldeep Singh got 12 votes. 8 votes were declared invalid. pic.twitter.com/vjQYcObylT
— ANI (@ANI) January 30, 2024
Soon after the result, AAP national convener and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal tweeted, “The kind of foul play that has been in Chandigarh Mayor Election in broad daylight, is a matter of concern. If they stoop to this level in a Mayor election, they can go to any level in the general election. This is very worrying.”
चंडीगढ़ मेयर चुनाव में दिन दहाड़े जिस तरह से बेईमानी की गई है, वो बेहद चिंताजनक है। यदि एक मेयर चुनाव में ये लोग इतना गिर सकते हैं तो देश के चुनाव में तो ये किसी भी हद तक जा सकते हैं। ये बेहद चिंताजनक है।
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) January 30, 2024
Originally scheduled for January 18, the polls were earlier deferred moments before councillors were about to cast their votes, owing to poor health of presiding officer Anil Masih. This triggered a protest by the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress members who accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of orchestrating the turn of events.