CHANDIGARH: Chandigarh BJP on Thursday won the Chandigarh Mayor election by defeating the Congress-AAP alliance candidate Premlata.
Though the alliance candidate had more votes than BJP candidate, but three votes of AAP-Congress alliance were crossed and whet in the favour of BJP candidate Babla.
All 36 polled votes were found valid. Out of these polled votes, BJP candidate Harpreet Kaur Babla got 19 votes, while AAP-Congress candidate Premlata got 17 votes.
Soon after the formal announcement of Mayor, all the elected BJP councillors and nominated councillors came in the well and started raising the slogans in favour of BJP, Prime Minster Narendra Modi and other local BJP leaders.
After taking the Mayor’s chair, newly elected Mayor Harpreet Kaur Babla thanked the BJP leadership and all senior officers of Chandigarh administration and Chandigarh MC, who conducted the election peacefully.
Now the process of the election of senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor has started.