New Delhi: In Chandigarh, Manoj Sonkar of BJP won by defeating Kuldeep Kumar of Aam Aadmi Party in the Chandigarh mayor election today.
Chandigarh Mayor Election:
This mayor’s election was seen as the first battle between the new India alliance and the NDA. But the Chandigarh mayor election was completely full of controversies. In the mayor’s election, Manoj Sonkar got 16 votes and Kuldeep Kumar got 12 votes. The election result was completely filled with dramaticness, which was because 8 votes were declared illegal.
Reaction of leaders on Chandigarh mayor election:
AAP’s national convener Arvind Kejriwal called it an open robbery in broad daylight.
Posting on X, Arvind Kejriwal said, “The way the Chandigarh mayor election happened that was broad daylight robbery, it is very worrying. If these people can fall so much in a mayor election, then they can go to any extent in the election of the country. This is very worrying. “
चंडीगढ़ मेयर चुनाव में दिन दहाड़े जिस तरह से बेईमानी की गई है, वो बेहद चिंताजनक है। यदि एक मेयर चुनाव में ये लोग इतना गिर सकते हैं तो देश के चुनाव में तो ये किसी भी हद तक जा सकते हैं। ये बेहद चिंताजनक है।
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) January 30, 2024
On the allegation of Arvind Kejriwal that the BJP cheated to win, Sonkar said that the allegation
is the main task of the INDIA bloc.
Punjab CM and AAP leader Bhagwant Mann says, “All 16 know how to vote and 8 do not even know 8 votes from our side! Democracy was ‘looted’ today .. . Anil Masiha BJP Head of the BJP Minority Wing. They made their officer bearer the presiding officer. On January 18, he said that he had a problem in his spine, so he could not come (for election). Today, I came to know that I was absolutely right. In fact, he didn’t even have a spine. He is spineless. If he had a spine, he would have counted (voted) properly”
#WATCH | Chandigarh Mayor election | Punjab CM and AAP leader Bhagwant Mann says, "...All 16 on their side know how to vote and 8 on our side don't even know to vote!...Democracy was 'looted' today...Anil Masih is the Head of the BJP Minority Wing. They made their officer bearer… pic.twitter.com/OBvJLJHqvy
— ANI (@ANI) January 30, 2024
In the Chandigarh Mayor election, BJP President JP Nadda posted on X and congratulated the Chandigarh BJP unit, while on the other hand, India alliance was also taunted.
Congratulations to @BJP4Chandigarh Unit for winning the Mayor election. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi Ji, UTs have witnessed record development. That the INDI Alliance fought their first electoral battle and still lost to BJP shows that neither their…
— Jagat Prakash Nadda (@JPNadda) January 30, 2024
Punjab BJP leader Jayveer Shergill called INDIA Alliance a thugbandhan. Jayveer Shergill said after the BJP’s victory in the Chandigarh Mayor election, “BJP’s Victory in the election is a victory of democracy and the defeat of the ‘thugbandhan’ Truth over lies, of the Politics of Service to the Nation over the Politics of Corruption, ”
AAP Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha posted on X that “How fair today’s Chandigarh Mayor Election was can be gauged from the fact that BJP had made its leader Anil Maish the Presiding Officer”
आज का चंडीगढ़ मेयर चुनाव कितना निष्पक्ष था इसका अंदाज़ा इसी बात से लगाया जा सकता है कि BJP ने अपने इस नेता Anil Masih को Presiding Officer बनाया था।
— Raghav Chadha (@raghav_chadha) January 30, 2024
फ़र्ज़ीवाडा करते हुए अपना फ़र्ज़ और पार्टी का क़र्ज़ बहुत अच्छे से निभाया इन्होंने। pic.twitter.com/exGfdojQRv
Chadha Said, ” Today, whatever happened in the Chandigarh Mayor election can be called
sedition.”
BJP candidate Rajinder Kumar was later elected as the deputy mayor after AAP and Congress councillors refused to cast their votes.
The Aam Aadmi Party has moved the Punjab and Haryana high court against the BJP victory.
With inputs from PTI and ANI.