BJP Mayor Manoj Sonkar had already resigned ahead of the hearing. The SC noted that the Returning Officer had deliberately defaced eight ballots that were cast in favour of Kuldeep Kumar to make them invalid.
BJP leader and Chandigarh mayor Manoj Sonkar resigned from the post on Sunday night, hours before the Supreme Court was set to hear the case related to the irregularities in the conduct of elections.
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Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a senior BJP leader told The Indian Express that they would further try “to break AAP numbers in the coming days”.