Setting aside the Chandigarh administration’s order of re-scheduling the mayoral polls for the Municipal Corporation to February 6, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday directed the elections to be conducted on January 30.
The Court’s decision came on a petition filed by Kuldeep Kumar, an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor, challenging the order of the Chandigarh Deputy Commissioner, of January 18, in which the elections for the post of mayor, senior deputy mayor, and deputy mayor for Chandigarh MC were deferred for February 6.
Petitioner’s counsel advocate Gurminder Singh said that the Division Bench of Justice Sudhir Singh and Justice Harsh Bunger has set aside the Chandigarh administration’s order, and now the polls will be held at 10 a.m. on January 30.
