As you may remember, there were accusations of vote-tampering by the presiding officer during the Chandigarh mayoral elections last month.
One day prior to the Supreme Court’s scheduled hearing on the case, Sonkar tendered his resignation.
Three Chandigarh Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councilors resigned in the wake of the action, leaving the party to join the BJP on Sunday.
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Following the declaration of the Chandigarh mayoral survey results, the AAP and the Congress blamed the BJP for cheating.
In addition, they claimed that a video that was submitted to the Supreme Court showed Presiding Officer Anil Masih “tampering” with ballot papers.
The BJP has excused these charges.
Nonetheless, during the underlying SC hearing, Boss Equity of India DY Chandrachud said that the court wouldn’t permit the “murder of a majority rule government.” He requested that all records of the constituent procedures be saved.
The transfer of three AAP councilors—Neha Musawat, Poonam Devi, and Gurcharan Kala—to the BJP will give the party an advantage over the AAP-Congress coalition in the fresh polls following the resignation of the mayor.
The BJP had 14 councilors in the 35-part Chandigarh Metropolitan Enterprise, which has now gone up to 17.
Additionally, it has the support of a Shiromani Akali Dal councilor and the vote of BJP Chandigarh MP and ex-officio member Kirron Kher. With this, the party now has 19 members.
Council members forced to resign: AAP The AAP currently has ten councilors, while the Congress only has seven.
Responding to the councilors’ renunciations, AAP Chandigarh pioneer Radiant Ahluwalia said they were pressured into stopping.
“The whole nation understands what occurred on January 30 and that 20 votes were surveyed for our competitor,” he said.
“Presently they have undermined our councilors and made them join. Everybody realizes what’s going on and how they have undermined them,” Ahluwalia added.
AAP calls for new surveys
Charging that the mayoral decisions were not directed in a fair way, the AAP had prior moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
The party had requested that the races be dropped, and the city chairman halted from accepting office.
It likewise required a new political decision under the oversight of a resigned HC judge.
After the high court had wouldn’t mediate, the AAP moved toward the zenith court.