BJP's Manoj Sonkar wins Chandigarh mayoral election, defeats INDIA block in first battle after Nitish Kumar's departure
BJP wins mayoral election in Chandigarh in the first BJP wins mayoral election in Chandigarh with 16 votes for mayoral candidate Manoj Sonkar. The Congress mayoral candidate received 12 votes. 8 votes were declared invalid.
Chandigarh Mayoral Polls 2024: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the mayoral elections in Chandigarh on Tuesday. BJP candidate Manoj Sonkar won the mayor's post by defeating AAP's Kuldeep Kumar. BJP won the polls by 16 votes ahead of mayoral candidate Manoj Sonkar. The Congress mayoral candidate received 12 votes. 8 votes were declared invalid.
On the post of senior deputy mayor, Kuljeet Sandhu of the BJP was pitted against Gurpreet Singh Gabi of the Congress, while the position of deputy mayor was contested between BJP's Rajinder Sharma and Nirmala Devi of the Congress.
This contest marked the first clash between the NDA and the INDIA bloc ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, after Nitish Kumar's unexpected switch.
#WATCH | BJP wins the mayoral election in Chandigarh with 16 votes over mayoral candidate Manoj Sonkar. Congress and AAP mayoral candidate Kuldeep Singh got 12 votes. 8 votes were declared invalid. pic.twitter.com/vjQYcObylT
— ANI (@ANI) January 30, 2024
Soon after the results, AAP National Congress member and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal tweeted: “The kind of foul play committed in broad daylight in the Chandigarh mayoral elections is a matter of concern. If they stoop to this level in the mayoral election, they can go to any level in the general election. This is very worrying.”
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— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) January 30, 2024
Originally scheduled for January 18, the elections were previously postponed just before councilors were about to cast their votes due to the ill health of Speaker Anil Masih. This sparked a protest from the Aam Aadmi Party and Congress members who accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of orchestrating the turn of events.