On February 20, the Supreme Court declared Kumar as the new mayor of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation after it overturned the result of the mayoral poll in which the BJP candidate had emerged the winner.
The protesters gathered near the Sector 17 police station here to lodge a police complaint in connection with the mayoral polls. Heavy police force was deployed and barricades were erected near the police station. The protesters demanded action against presiding officer Anil Masih, accusing him of tampering with some ballot papers during the polls which led to declaration of eight votes as invalid.
Amid intense drama, the BJP candidate for Chandigarh Mayor election was declared victorious by the presiding officer on Tuesday as eight votes of the AAP-Congress block were declared invalid, prompting the INDIA alliance partners to term it as "murder of democracy".
BJP retained the three
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A division bench of justices Sudhir Singh and Harsh Bunger, which was hearing a plea filed by Kumar, issued notices to the Chandigarh administration, the municipal corporation, presiding officer Anil Masih and new mayor Manoj Sonkar, among others, to file their replies within three weeks and adjourned the matter till February 26.