Two Chandigarh municipal councillors on Saturday rejoined the Aam Aadmi Occasion weeks after switching to the Bhartiya Janta Occasion (BJP). The event got here days after the Congress-AAP alliance misplaced elections to the posts of senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor of the Chandigarh Municipal Company.
Poonam Kumari and Neha Musabat returned to the AAP fold on Saturday, a celebration assertion mentioned. Each leaders rejoined the AAP within the presence of AAP’s co-incharge Sunny Ahluwalia on Saturday.
Kumari, Musabat and one other councillor had joined the BJP on February 19, a day earlier than the Supreme Courtroom was scheduled to listen to a plea alleging irregularities within the mayoral polls. Nearly all of the AAP-Congress alliance in bother with their swap.
Now, that Kumari and Musabat have returned to the AAP, the get together’s energy within the 35-member home of the Chandigarh Municipal Company reaches 12, whereas the BJP’s tally is down to fifteen. The Congress has seven councillors whereas the Akali Dal has one.
Chandigarh MP Kirron Kher, who’s a BJP member, additionally has voting rights as an ex-officio member of the company. On March 4, the BJP gained the reelection for the posts of senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor of the Chandigarh Municipal Company, defeating the Congress candidates who have been backed by the AAP as a part of the opposition’s INDIA bloc.
On February 20, the Supreme Courtroom had declared Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) councillor Kuldeep Kumar as the brand new mayor of the company after it overturned the results of the January 30 mayoral ballot during which BJP candidate Manoj Sonkar had emerged the winner.
The apex court docket judgment had come after allegations of tampering with ballots through the January mayoral polls. Because the mayor is the presiding officer for the elections to the posts of senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor, the polls have been held once more on Monday after the change of mayor.
(With inputs from PTI)
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