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Manoj Sonkar | Photograph: ANI
BJP chief Manoj Sonkar resigned as Chandigarh mayor and three AAP councillors joined the saffron occasion on Sunday, a day earlier than the Supreme Court docket is scheduled to listen to a plea alleging irregularities within the just lately held mayoral polls.
Sonkar has submitted his resignation to the municipal commissioner, mentioned Chandigarh BJP president Jatinder Pal Malhotra.
The Congress and the AAP don’t have an alliance and are solely befooling the general public. They are going to be uncovered earlier than the general public, Malhotra advised PTI.
In the meantime, senior BJP chief Arun Sood mentioned three AAP councillors have joined the BJP.
The BJP had swept the January 30 Chandigarh mayoral polls, in a setback to the Congress-AAP alliance that alleged tampering with poll papers by the presiding officer.
Sonkar had defeated the AAP’s Kuldeep Kumar for the mayor’s publish, polling 16 votes towards his rival’s 12. Eight votes had been declared invalid.
Kumar had later moved the Supreme Court docket.
On February 5, the Supreme Court docket had rapped the returning officer who performed the Chandigarh mayoral polls, observing that it was apparent that he defaced the poll papers and that he must be prosecuted, including that his motion amounted to “homicide and mockery” of democracy.
The courtroom had additionally ordered preservation of ballots and the video of the ballot proceedings moreover searching for the returning officer’s private look in the course of the subsequent listening to within the case on February 19.
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First Printed: Feb 19 2024 | 12:01 AM IST
