What happened in Chandigarh Mayor electionsLet’s know in 3 points?
Actually, there are total 35 seats in chandigarh Municipal Corporation. Before the elections, bjp had 14 councillors, Kejriwal's AAP had 13, congress had 7 and Shiromani Akali Dal had 1 councillor. This means that if AAP-Congress were contesting the elections together, the india Alliance had more councilors than bjp i.e. 20. Now the question arises that despite having more numbers, how did the Congress-AAP alliance lose the chandigarh Mayor election, let us know in this report...
1. How did bjp win even though numbers were less?
To understand this in simple language, the magic number of victory for any party to win the post of Mayor is 19. Apart from this, the mp of chandigarh also votes in the Mayor elections. That means total seats became 36. Including the votes of bjp and Akali Dal, bjp had 15 councillors. After this, chandigarh mp kirron kher cast her vote for BJP. Overall bharatiya janata party got 16 votes. On the other hand, congress and AAP had 20 votes each.
In such a situation, everyone expected that the indian alliance would win very easily. But when the results of the mayor election came, the result was different. According to the results, bjp got a total of 16 votes in the elections. Whereas the alliance got only 12 votes. 8 votes of the alliance were not included in the counting. Not only this, no other reason was given for doing so.
2. Had the vote not been cancelled, AAP-Congress's victory was certain.
Now, even if BJP's victory was declared in the results, if the votes of aam aadmi party and congress councilors had not been cancelled, then india Alliance would definitely have won.
3. Why were eight ballot papers declared invalid?
After this entire matter, Presiding Officer Anil Masih said in a statement given to news agency ANI, "There should not be any tick marks or marks in the ballot paper. After voting, we declared the eight ballot papers in which such marks were found invalid. However, he also gave this reason after the uproar over the election results.