CHANDIGARH: BJP’s Kuljeet Singh Sandhu was chosen to the post of elderly deputy mayor in repolls in the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation on Monday.
Election to the article of replacement mayor is underway. Sandhu protected 19 ballots while Congress’ Gurpreet Gabi obtained 16 ballots. One vote was declared invalid.
The result was revealed by the mayor. In the 35-member municipal Residence, the BJP has 17 councillors.
The number of BJP’s toughness boosted from 14 to 17 after 3 AAP councillors switched to it on February 19.
The AAP has 10 participants while the Congress has 7. The Shiromani Akali Dal has one councillor.
Chandigarh MP Kirron Kher, who is a BJP member, additionally has voting legal rights as an ex-officio participant of the company.
The High Court on February 20 had rescinded the January 30 outcomes of the Chandigarh mayoral poll in which the BJP candidate had emerged an unlikely winner, and proclaimed defeated AAP-Congress partnership prospect Kuldeep Kumar as the city’s new mayor.
The procedure for election for both articles is being carried out by Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) councillor Kumar that lately assumed the charge of Chandigarh mayor.
In the January 30 poll, BJP’s Manoj Sonkar had actually beat Kumar to come to be mayor.
Declaring tampering of tallies, councillors of the AAP and the Congress boycotted the elections to the messages of elderly replacement mayor and deputy mayor, bring about the triumph of Sandhu and Rajinder Sharma after that.
This time around also the BJP has actually fielded Sharma for the message of deputy mayor.
He is up against Congress’ Nirmala Devi.