The BJP's Manoj Sonkar was declared the Mayor of Chandigarh on Tuesday after he won the mayoral polls with 16 votes against the 12 votes bagged by Congress-AAP candidate Kuldeep Tita. Eight votes were declared null and void.
Vivek Yadav, an AAP candidate from Ujjain re-joined Congress on Tuesday. Yadav quit the grand old party earlier this week after the party did not give him a ticket to contest in the forthcoming assembly polls scheduled to be held next month.
Aam Aadmi Party chief ministerial candidate Isudan Gadhvi, who is contesting the Gujarat Assembly polls from Khambhalia, is trailing from his seat against his BJP opponent who is leading with a margin of 14,761 votes in the latest trends.
AAP candidate Bobi, the lone transgender contender contesting the Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections. MCD, for the first time, will have a member of the transgender community.
In the ongoing close contest in the Delhi civic body polls between the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), 56 AAP candidates have been declared winners till 11.30 am, followed by 46 BJP candidates, according to the Election Commission on Wednesday.
A case has been registered under the Arms Act against a man named Joginder Singh alias Bunty, who is an AAP candidate for MCD polls from Ward-19, Swaroop Nagar, as he was seen in a viral video flaunting his revolver while dancing," Delhi Police said in a statement.
Aam Aadmi Party candidate from Gujarat's Surat East, Kanchan Jariwala, on Wednesday said that he withdrew his nominations because the party workers had started demanding money
Singrauli (Madhya Pradesh) [India], July 17 (ANI): With the victory of its mayoral candidate Rani Agrawal in the Singrauli Municipal Corporation elections, the Aam Aadmi Party set its feet in the political landscape of Madhya Pradesh on Sunday.
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], June 4 (ANI): Aam Admi Party (AAP) candidate Gurmail Singh on Saturday filed his nomination for the Sangrur Lok Sabha bypoll in presence of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.