Chandigarh set to elect new mayor today

A mayor’s tenure successful Chandigarh lasts for a year, and this time, the spot is reserved for a pistillate councillor.

With Gurbax Rawat switching from the Congress to the BJP, the enactment positions person changed. The BJP present has 16 councillors, portion AAP and Congress unneurotic clasp 20 votes, including the ballot of Chandigarh MP Manish Tewari.

Of the 36 votes, a campaigner needs 19 to win. The BJP is banking connected enactment from 3 councillors done cross-voting.

Voting begins astatine 11 americium done a concealed ballot.

Lunch diplomacy and amusement of spot earlier polls

Amid reports of a rift wrong AAP, the enactment released a photograph of each its councillors unneurotic astatine a Ropar hotel, including 3 who were reportedly upset. AAP said it was assured of winning the election.

Meanwhile, the BJP besides enactment up a amusement of spot with a luncheon astatine the Lake Club, attended by each its councillors.

Know your candidates

Harpreet Babla

Harpreet Babla, 60, is the girl of a retired service colonel and a nonmigratory of Sector 27, Chandigarh. She is joined to erstwhile councillor Devinder Singh Babla.

An alumna of Convent of Jesus and Mary, Dehradun, she holds a BA (Hons) successful History and an MA successful English. She has been elected arsenic a municipal corp councillor twice.

Prem Lata

Prem Lata, 46, the AAP candidate, resides successful Sector 35, Chandigarh. Her husband, a retired Air Force officer, is presently an English teacher for classes XI and XII astatine a authorities schoolhouse successful Chandigarh.

She had to discontinue assemblage aft the archetypal twelvemonth owed to matrimony but aboriginal completed a one-year parlour course.

No mobile phones, gadgets allowed

On Wednesday, an bid was issued prohibiting councillors from carrying mobile phones oregon gadgets.

“The predetermination of the mayor, elder lawman mayor, and lawman politician volition beryllium held by concealed ballot without showing the beforehand of the ballot insubstantial to anyone, arsenic per Regulation 6 of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (Procedure and Conduct of Business) Regulation, 1996,” the bid stated.

It further added that mobile phones, cameras, weapons, physics gadgets, pens, and pencils would not beryllium allowed wrong the assembly hallway during the predetermination process.

DC visits MC bureau to cheque arrangements, erstwhile justice present

Chandigarh Deputy Commissioner Nishant Kumar Yadav chaired a gathering astatine the Municipal Corporation bureau successful Sector 17 to reappraisal the arrangements for the election.

He examined information measures, logistics, and compliance with guidelines, instructing officials to strictly travel the regularisation book. The constabulary were directed to barricade the 3 roads starring to the MC bureau and deploy capable unit to support instrumentality and order.

CCTV cameras person been installed wrong the assembly hallway to seizure proceedings, with arrangements for storing recordings for a specified period.

Present astatine the gathering were erstwhile justice Justice Jaishree Thakur, Supreme Court-appointed perceiver Ramneek Singh Bedi, presiding serviceman Amandeep Singh Bhatti, and different officials.

DC issues bid prohibiting gatherings of 5 oregon more

Chandigarh Deputy Commissioner Nishant Kumar Yadav issued an bid connected Wednesday evening prohibiting gatherings of 5 oregon much radical astir the MC building.

The bid stated that the mayoral predetermination could pb to imaginable disruptions and threats to nationalist bid and security. To forestall specified incidents, the DC invoked Section 163 of the Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita-2023, banning gatherings of 5 oregon much radical wrong 100 metres of the MC gathering from January 29 to January 30.

The bid volition stay successful effect from midnight connected January 29 until 12 americium connected January 31.

The fig game
• Winning votes required by BJP – 3
• BJP councillors – 16
• AAP and Congress councillors – 20 (including MP’s vote)
• Votes required to triumph – 19