In addition to the mayoral post, the BJP also clinched the positions of Senior Deputy Mayor and Deputy Mayor. BJP's Jasmanpreet Singh was elected Senior Deputy Mayor, while party councillor Suman Sharma was chosen as the new Deputy Mayor. With these results, the BJP consolidated its contr
BJP's National General Secretary Vinod Tawde has been appointed the election incharge for the upcoming Kerala Assembly elections, while Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje named as the election co-in-charge.
The protests followed the arrest of the sister of Councillor Suman Devi by the Punjab Police on Sunday morning. Suman Devi, along with Councillor Poonam Devi, had joined the BJP in December, weeks before the crucial mayoral election in the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation.
Ahead of the Chandigarh Mayor election, two Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillors on Wednesday, Suman Devi and Poonam Devi, have joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
"The secretive camaraderie between Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party that was going on for some time in Delhi has become public in the Chandigarh Mayor elections. Everyone has come to know that both are the same and have joined hands due to the Delhi elections," Dhanda said.
After Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has registered victory in the Chandigarh Mayoral Elections, Delhi BJP President Virendraa Sachdeva said that it's a message that APP needs to be "thrown out" of power and Delhi people will be giving a similar message during Delhi Assembly polls.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has registered its victory in the Chandigarh Mayoral Elections by winning 19 votes against the 17 votes of the AAP-Congress alliance.
The Supreme Court on Monday appointed Justice Jaishree Thakur, a former judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, as an independent observer to monitor the voting for the Chandigarh mayoral elections scheduled for January 30.
Congress MP Manish Tewari said on Wednesday that the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation took a "historic, path-breaking decision" to conduct the 2025 elections with a show of hands instead of a secret ballot.
Highlighting instances where the ruling BJP was on the wrong side of the Constitution, Kakkar said, "Recently, during the Chandigarh mayoral elections, Anil Massi murdered the Constitution on camera and free and fair elections were not taking place. In Delhi, after a 9-year-long fight the
AAP leader Sunny Ahluwalia lashed out at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led centre over Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Admi Party convenor Arvind Kejriwal's arrest.