Yesterday, the BJP claimed victory to the post of Chandigarh mayor in a curious sequence of events that the AAP and Congress, which were contesting together, called “fraud”.
AAP-Congress candidate Kuldeep Singh seemed tipped to win when the presiding officer declared eight of the INDIA alliance votes to be “invalid”, giving the victory to the BJP’s Manoj Sonkar. The BJP was otherwise short of a simple majority in the 35-member municipal corporation.
