Ahead of the Supreme Court hearing on allegations of irregularities in the vote-counting process, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Manoj Sonkar resigned from the post of Chandigarh Mayor on Sunday.
High drama was witnessed in the Chandigarh Mayoral poll results after the presiding officer declared eight votes of Congress and AAP councillors invalid, resulting in the victory of the BJP candidate Manoj Sonkar in the mayoral elections.
AAP leader and Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha on Tuesday termed the Chandigarh mayoral polls as "unconstitutional and illegal" while calling it an act of "deshdroh" (treason) and demanded action against the presiding officer and a criminal case against him.
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.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress on Tuesday filed a petition in the Punjab-Haryana High Court highlighting concerns over the integrity of the recently conducted mayoral elections in Chandigarh.
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.
The prisoner was identified as Anil, a resident of Chhatripura, Mhow Naka, Indore and he was imprisoned on the charges of murder of his wife in July last year.
A scuffle broke out between Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party supporters following the conclusion of the polls in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur in the late hours of Friday.
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey on Friday said that the Mahua Moitra played with national security and that the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee's decision to adopt the report against the TMC MP is fair.
Lok Sabha Ethics Committee has submitted its draft report recommending the expulsion of TMC MP Mahua Moitra in connection with the 'Cash for Query' case to Speaker Om Birla, sources said on Friday.