Punjab and Haryana High Court defers Chandigarh mayoral polls until January 29

The mayoral polls were scheduled to beryllium held via concealed ballot connected January 24, and the past day for filing nominations was January 20. Even earlier the announcement of the adjacent proceeding day successful the AAP’s plea, the Congress and the BJP person declared their candidates. The BJP’s mayoral campaigner is Harpreet Babla, portion Bimla Dubey has been nominated for elder lawman politician and Lakhbir Singh for lawman mayor.

As for the Congress, the candidates for elder lawman politician and lawman politician are Jasbir Bunty and Taruna Mehta, respectively. They submitted their nominations to the caput of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation connected Monday.

Speaking to The Indian Express, Congress president H S Lucky said, “We submitted our nominations earlier learning astir the caller canvass date. Regardless, our nominations volition stay unchanged.”

The AAP has a sitting politician successful the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation House with the enactment of the Congress. This clip also, the AAP has person decided to proceed with the arrangement. Currently, the AAP has 21 votes successful the House — 13 from the AAP, 7 from the Congress, and 1 ex-officio ballot from MP Manish Tewari. Meanwhile, the BJP has lone 15 votes.

The mayoral polls held connected January 30, 2024, were marred by allegations of misconduct by BJP councillors and presiding authorization Anil Masih. After the lawsuit reached the Supreme Court and it made adverse observations, the elected BJP mayor, Manoj Sonkar, resigned. The AAP-Congress confederation campaigner Kuldeep Kumar was aboriginal declared the winner.

The AAP’s plea successful the precocious tribunal highlighted the events during the 2024 mayoral polls and projected conducting the voting done a amusement of hands alternatively of a concealed ballot to heighten transparency. It besides requested the installation of CCTV cameras to grounds the voting process.