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Safety personnel stand guard after AAP and Congress councilors staged a protest in Chandigarh on Tuesday following the Chandigarh mayoral election outcomes (File Picture: PTI)
AAP councilor Kuldeep Kumar, who was a candidate for the mayor’s submit, has filed an enchantment within the high court docket towards the dismissal of the interim order and itemizing of the plea after three weeks.
An AAP councilor has moved the Supreme Courtroom difficult a Punjab and Haryana Excessive Courtroom order that has refused to grant any interim aid to the social gathering looking for recent mayoral elections in Chandigarh.
A division bench of Supreme Courtroom Justices Sudhir Singh and Harsh Bunger on Wednesday denied interim aid to the Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP), which alleged poll tampering and sought recent elections beneath the supervision of a retired choose of the court docket.
The Supreme Courtroom has issued discover to the Chandigarh authorities concerning the plea and sought a response inside three weeks.
AAP councilor Kuldeep Kumar, candidate for the mayoral submit, has filed an enchantment within the high court docket towards the dismissal of the interim order and itemizing of the plea after three weeks.
The Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) registered a victory within the Chandigarh mayoral elections and retained all three posts, in a setback for the Congress-AAP alliance which alleged poll tampering by the presiding officer.
The Supreme Courtroom has issued notices to the Chandigarh authorities, Municipal Company Chairman Anil Masih and newly elected Mayor Manoj Sonkar, amongst others, asking them to submit their replies inside three weeks.
The case was adjourned within the Supreme Courtroom till February 26.
In accordance with the plea filed within the Supreme Courtroom, the AAP candidate has sought instructions for holding recent elections in a free and truthful method beneath the supervision of a retired choose to make sure “no malpractice”.
The plea says it was filed as a result of “the elections weren’t held in a free and truthful method and there was gross violation within the counting of votes, in tampering with the poll papers and subsequently declaring them invalid, in favor of the BJP and towards the AAP-Congress alliance”.
The petitioner has requested an investigation by an impartial physique into the “full fraud” dedicated through the electoral course of.
The petitioner has additionally sought instructions to the respondents to seal, protect and current earlier than the Supreme Courtroom the complete election course of, together with the report of the poll papers and conduct of the election course of and the videography taken on Tuesday.
The petitioner additionally sought instructions to restrain the newly elected mayor from discharging his duties as the complete election course of was “tainted by fraud”.
The Congress and the AAP had predicted a straightforward victory for his or her alliance within the 35-member Chandigarh Municipal Company, projecting it as an early take a look at for the INDIA opposition bloc forward of the Lok Sabha elections. However the BJP retained all of the three high posts for which the polls have been held.
Opposition councilors alleged that President Masih had tampered with the ballots, a cost rejected by him and the BJP.
(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – PTI)