CHANDIGARH: Following the setback in the Chandigarh mayoral election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) managed a comeback, securing positions of senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor in the re-poll.
The BJP’s Kuljeet Sandhu won against INDIA alliance candidate Gurpreet Singh Gabi with a margin of 3 votes. While Sandhu got 19 votes, Gurpreet got 16. One vote was declared invalid.
The BJP party also won the post of deputy mayor by a margin of two votes. While the BJP’s Rajinder Sharma got 19 votes, the INDIA alliance candidate Nirmala Devi got 17. A total of 36 votes were polled.