Chandigarh
The Bharatiya Janata Party won all three posts in the Chandigarh mayoral elections held yesterday. BJP’s Sarabjit Kaur was elected the mayor, and Dalip Sharma and Anup Gupta became her deputies. In the 36-member Municipal Corporation House, 28 votes were polled as the Congress and SAD abstained from voting.
The BJP got 14 votes, AAP 13 and one vote was deemed invalid. BJP’s Anup Gupta won through a draw of lots after votes were tied 14:14 between him and AAP’s Ram Chander Yadav. AAP had emerged as the single largest party in the elections held last month. AAP won 14 seats BJP 12, Congress 8 and SAD won 1 seat.
MEANWHILE The Aam Aadmi Party has claimed the “shocking death of democracy” after a BJP leader – Municipal Councillor Sarabjit Kaur – was declared the winner of the mayoral race in Chandigarh yesterday, beating out the AAP’s Anju Katyal by one vote.
Sarabjit Kaur and Anju Katyal both polled 14 of 28 polled votes but the former was declared the winner after one vote in favour Anju Katyal was ruled to be invalid.”SHOCKING DEATH OF DEMOCRACY| DC (District Collector) illegally elected BJP’s Mayor despite AAP winning more seats. AAP senior leaders are waiting outside his office, but he now refuses to meet them,” the AAP tweeted Saturday.