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Congress’s Deputy Mayor Taruna Mehta and Senior Deputy Mayor Jasbir Singh Bunty, on with their supporters, arsenic they assumed bureau astatine Municipal Corporation successful Chandigarh connected Monday. (Express photograph by Jasbir Malhi)
The rift wrong the Congress-AAP confederation was Monday retired successful the unfastened erstwhile the AAP councillors skipped the joining of the Congress’s recently elected elder lawman politician and lawman mayor.
Not lone this, but the Congress councillors besides boycotted all-councillor gathering called by recently elected Mayor Harpreet Kaur Babla portion the AAP attended the same.
An important all-councillor gathering was called by the Mayor to hole the roadmap for this twelvemonth and galore important points were discussed during the meeting.
Senior BJP person Mahesh Inder Sidhu told The Indian Express, “This shows the non-seriousness of the Congress enactment towards the improvement of the City Beautiful. The Congress councillors conveniently chose to boycott, showing their constrictive governmental thought.”
He added, “The AAP, contempt losing the mayor’s election, was contiguous successful afloat strength, including their campaigner Prem Lata. The Congress councillors were contiguous successful the Municipal Corporation gathering astatine the clip erstwhile the all-councillor gathering was going connected successful the league hall, but the Congress councillors, aft filing their information for the F&CC elections, were engaged sitting successful the offices of the elder lawman politician and lawman mayor, which shows that the Congress enactment cares much astir getting posts and has zero sincerity towards the citizens of the city.”
Sidhu adjacent went connected to accidental that “after the backstabbing of AAP by the Congress successful the Mayor’s election, the rift became wide unfastened contiguous erstwhile nary of the AAP councillors attended the assuming of bureau by the elder lawman and lawman politician of the Congress party”.
Chandigarh Congress president H S Lucky portion speaking to The Indian Express said, ” AAP knows from wrong however their ain radical person betrayed them…but from our broadside confederation is intact. That’s the lone mode we tin springiness bully combat to BJP. And we didn’t boycott immoderate meeting… moreover it was an informal meeting. We had our joining ceremonial and past Finance Panel nominations.”
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