On Monday, BJP’s Kuljeet Singh Sandhu was elected to the post of senior deputy mayor in repolls in the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation.
Meanwhile, the election to the post of deputy mayor is going on. Notably, Mr Sandhu won 19 votes while Congress’s Gurpreet Gabi got 16 votes.
However, one vote was declared invalid and the result was announced by the mayor.
The BJP has 17 councillors in the 35-member municipal house. The number of BJP’s strength increased from 14 to 17 after three Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillors switched over to it on February 19.
The AAP has 10 members while the Congress has seven and the Shiromani Akali Dal has one councillor.
Chandigarh MP Kirron Kher, a BJP member, also has voting rights as an ex-officio member of the corporation.
On February 20, the Supreme Court overturned the January 30 results of the Chandigarh mayoral poll.
The process for election for the two posts is being conducted by AAP councillor Kumar who recently assumed the charge of Chandigarh mayor.
In the January 30 poll, BJP’s Manoj Sonkar had defeated Kumar to become mayor.
The BJP has fielded Mr Sharma for the post of deputy mayor. He is up against Congress’s Nirmala Devi.
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