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AAP and Congress councillors with Chandigarh MP Manish Tewari arrives astatine municipal corp gathering for mayoral election. (Express photo)
The Chandigarh Police connected Wednesday nighttime booked Mayor Kuldeep Kumar Dhalor of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and his brother-in-law Rahul connected charges of cheating and corruption, conscionable hours earlier the mayoral polls successful the Union Territory.
If Kuldeep Kumar is arrested earlier voting, the BJP volition necessitate lone 2 further votes to triumph the Chandigarh mayoral polls. The AAP has approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court, hoping for a proceeding successful the substance astatine 10 am, an hr earlier the scheduled voting done concealed ballot astatine 11 am.
The lawsuit was registered based connected the ailment of Ravi, a nonmigratory of Ram Darbar. He alleged that helium paid Rs 75,000 to Rahul, who had promised him a sanitation idiosyncratic job. As per the complaint, Ravi made the outgo via UPI transactions connected September 10, 11, and 13 aft negotiations. However, contempt making payments, helium alleged helium did not person immoderate job.
While Kuldeep Kumar’s telephone was switched disconnected aft the filing of the FIR, Dr S S Ahluwalia, co-incharge of the AAP successful Chandigarh and president of the Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board, said, “The ailment filed by a nonmigratory of Ram Darbar against Chandigarh Mayor Kuldeep Kumar, alleging that helium took wealth successful speech for a job, is thing but a bundle of lies and a stunt by the BJP to forestall him from voting.”
“Whenever BJP loses elections, it destroys ideology by filing specified mendacious complaints and tries to suppress the dependable of honorable radical by putting unit connected them. AAP and its councillors volition not beryllium frightened of specified mendacious complaints,” helium said.
He further claimed that the BJP, fearing decision successful the mayoral election, was trying to unit honorable officers of Chandigarh with baseless complaints. “Last year, the BJP tried to pressurise Mayor Kuldeep Kumar and AAP person Harjinder Bawa by filing a ailment of kidnapping of a councillor, which was aboriginal proved to beryllium false.”
The politician of Chandigarh serves a one-year term, and this time, the presumption is reserved for a pistillate councillor. The contention is betwixt Prem Lata of the AAP and Harpreet Babla of the BJP. Additionally, the elder lawman politician and lawman politician volition beryllium elected from among the councillors.
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Of the 36 votes, a campaigner needs 19 to win. Gurbax Rawat’s power from the Congress to the BJP has altered enactment positions successful the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation. The BJP present has 16 councillors, portion the AAP and the Congress collectively clasp 20 votes, including that of Chandigarh MP Manish Tewari.
The mayoral elections past twelvemonth were besides overshadowed by allegations of misconduct involving BJP councillors and the presiding authority, Anil Masih. Following the case’s escalation to the Supreme Court, which made captious observations, the elected BJP mayor, Manoj Sonkar, resigned. Subsequently, Kuldeep Kumar, the campaigner from the AAP-Congress alliance, was declared the winner.
Hina Rohtaki is simply a Special Correspondent with The Indian Express, Chandigarh. She covers Chandigarh medication and different transverse beats. In this tract for implicit a decennary now, she has besides received the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Excellence successful Journalism Award by the President of India successful January 2020. She tweets @HinaRohtaki ... Read More
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