In a shot in the arm of the BJP in the Municipal Corporation Chandigarh, newly elected Congress councillor Harpreet Kaur Babla and her husband Devinder Singh Babla on Sunday joined the saffron party.Now BJP s count of councillors rose to 13 in .
Chandigarh MC election result: In a stunning electoral debut, Aam Aadmi Party won as many as 14 seats, followed by BJP's 12 and Congress' 8 - in a tightly fought Chandigarh Municipal Corporation Election.
Chandigarh: New entrant Aam Aadmi Party has emerged as the leading outfit in the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation polls, winning 14 of 35 wards in the final results declared on.
BJP’s councillor Ravi Kant Sharma became the new Chandigarh Mayor on Friday.
He got 17 votes of the 24 polled during the elections held at the MC house today.
BJP councillors flash victory signs after Ravi Kant Sharma was elected Chandigarh Mayor on Friday. Tribune Photo
Congress mayor candidate Devinder Singh Babla got only five votes.
Two votes were declared invalid.
BJP councillors flash victory signs after Ravi Kant Sharma was elected Chandigarh Mayor on Friday. Tribune Photo
While city MP Kirron Kher and councillor Heera Negi couldn’t attend the election because of poor health; lone SAD councillor Hardeep Singh boycotted voting.
The political upheaval in the BJP yesterday turned out to be a damp squib today.
In a blow to BJP’s rebel councillor Chandrawati Shukla, her nomination for the post of Mayor was rejected on technical grounds today. She had filed her papers in protest against the party’s official candidate, Ravi Kant Sharma.
While Congress councillor Devinder Singh Babla was her proposer, Satish Kainth was the seconder in the nomination form. The Congress had yesterday declared that Babla might withdraw his candidature to support Shukla, but the plan came a cropper today.
MC Secretary Anil Kumar Garg reasoned: “One person cannot be a proposer or seconder more than once. Councillor Kainth was the proposer for Babla and seconder for Shukla. Thus, the second nomination was invalid.”