Forward of the Chandigarh mayoral elections scheduled for January 30, the Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) has moved its councillors to a lodge in Punjab’s Ropar fearing makes an attempt to affect their votes.
On Monday, Congress councillor and veteran politician Gurbax Rawat joined the BJP, which implies the saffron celebration now has 16 councillors on its facet. In the meantime, the AAP-Congress alliance’s tally dropped to twenty.
An AAP supply stated, “Occasion councillors have been moved to a lodge in Ropar because the BJP is attempting to method every one in every of them and get them on its facet.” The leaders had been additionally requested to give up their cell phones, sources added.
Three AAP councillors have, nevertheless, refused to go to the lodge over variations throughout the celebration. Sources stated they had been sad over the candidature of AAP’s Prem Lata for mayor and had been in talks with the BJP.
The BJP has fielded Harpreet Babla, spouse of the celebration’s Chandigarh unit vice-president Devinder Babla, for the mayor’s put up. Each candidates filed their nomination papers for the put up on Saturday.
Final 12 months, despite the fact that the Supreme Courtroom intervened and declared the AAP’s mayoral candidate as duly elected, the posts of senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor had been clinched by the BJP because it managed to win the votes of three AAP councillors. After the vote, the councillors moved again to the AAP.
