BJP defeats AAP by 1 vote to win the election for the submit of Chandigarh mayor

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Anup Gupta managed to defeat his rival Jasbir Singh Laddi from Aam Aadmi Party within the election for the submit of the mayor of Chandigarh. Anup Gupta managed to scrap via by a margin of 1 vote. A complete of 29 votes have been polled with Gupta getting 15 votes and Laddi ending up with 14.

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and Congress selected to abstain from the voting that was held at the moment, January 17. The metropolis stunning continues to have a BJP mayor as they’d received final yr’s election as properly. At that point, BJP’s Sarabjit Kaur had defeated AAP’s Anju Katyal by the identical margin of 1 vote.

Both BJP and AAP have 14 councillors every within the House, whereas Chandigarh MP additionally has a vote being an ex-officio member of the municipal company House. BJP’s Kirron Kher is the present member of parliament from the town. Congress has 6 councillors whereas SAD has a single member. However, each these events selected to abstain from the voting, leaving it as a direct battle between BJP and AAP as soon as once more.

“I thank my party leadership for their faith in me as they chose me as the candidate for this post. I will run the House with the same dignity that our previous mayor did,” Gupta stated after profitable the election.

Anup Gupta had served because the deputy mayor after the earlier election. 38-year-old businessman Gupta is the councillor from ward 11, which covers sectors 18,19, and 21. He was first elected as a councillor in 2021.

The elections for the senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor will likely be held later within the day.