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AAP’s Mayoral Candidate Emotional To A Surprising Defeat

The AAP’s candidate for the Chandigarh mayoral elections broke down and started crying in front of the cameras following the stunning defeat in what was supposed to be the first significant confrontation between the BJP and the INDIA alliance. Pictures show Kuldeep Kumar, who lost to Manoj Sonkar of the BJP in the mayoral race, still crying while supporters surrounded consoled him and chanted slogans.

The AAP and Congress, two critical members of the INDIA bloc, allied to compete against the BJP in Tuesday’s elections. Leading AAP politician Raghav Chadha had forecast a “historic and decisive” victory for the coalition ahead of the polls, saying it would set the tone for the next Lok Sabha elections.

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The AAP accused the BJP of being dishonest and called the polls an “act of treason” after the BJP candidate won by receiving 16 of the 36 total votes and eight declared invalid. Terming the elections a worrying development, AAP chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal posted on X, “How dishonesty has been done in broad daylight in the Chandigarh mayor elections is extremely worrying. If these people can stoop so low in a mayor’s election, they can go to any extent in the country’s elections. This is very worrying…”

Mr Chadha stated that Mr Kumar, who received twelve votes, would have won if Anil Masih, the presiding officer and a member of the BJP’s minority cell, had not ruled that eight of the ballots were illegal.

“This is ‘desh droh’. Eight of our votes were declared invalid… not one vote of BJP was declared invalid. The presiding officer must show all parties’ agents when a vote is invalid. But today, this didn’t happen…” the AAP Rajya Sabha MP said

“Neither the election agent nor Deputy Commissioner was shown the ballot paper before it was declared invalid. If they can do this for mayoral polls, imagine what they can do in Lok Sabha polls. Does the BJP want to turn India into North Korea,” he added.

 

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