After a high-voltage drama around the Chandigarh mayoral elections, Delhi Minister and AAP leader Saurabh Bhardwaj on Tuesday alleged "robbery" by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and said that the party's victory in Chandigarh mayoral polls was a "blatant theft."
The Bharatiya Janta Party's (BJP) Manoj Sonkar won the Chandigarh mayoral elections on Tuesday, the first election battle against the INDIA bloc by defeating the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Kuldeep Kumar.
"Congratulations to @BJP4Chandigarh Unit for winning the Mayor election. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi Ji, UTs have witnessed record development. That the INDI Alliance fought their first electoral battle and still lost to BJP shows that neither their arithmetic i
The Mayoral election, which was scheduled for January 18, was postponed citing "law and order" issues. AAP councillor Kuldeep Kumar had challenged the deferment.
Former MP Ashok Tanwar tendered his resignation from the primary membership of the Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday citing the reason as the alignment of AAP with the Indian National Congress for Chandigarh Mayor elections.
After the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party decided to jointly contest the Chandigarh Mayor elections on January 18, AAP MP Raghav Chadha on Tuesday said that this election will change the picture and direction of politics, adding "This will be the first match of BJP vs INDIA bloc."
Pawan Kumar Bansal told ANI that both parties were discussing the same, and it was decided that the AAP will contest the Mayor's post while the Congress would contest the remaining two.
The Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) candidate Adam Azim on Saturday triumphed as Mayor of Maldives capital, Male and defeated Azima Shakoor from the ruling People's National Congress (PNC).
After Murtaza Wahab won a close race for mayor of Karachi last week, the JI and PPP have been at odds. In contrast, the JI had the backing of 61 PTI members, bringing the predicted number of votes for Rehman to 192. The PPP had joined forces with the PML-N and JUI-F, increasing their combine
Clashes broke between Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) soon after the reports came out that PPP's Murtaza Wahab won the Karachi mayor elections, reported Dawn.