BJP’s Anup Gupta Wins as Chandigarh Mayor, Defeats AAP by One Vote

Defeating Aam Aadmi Party’s candidate Jasbir Singh, the Chandigarh Bharatiya Janata Party’s Anup Gupta on Tuesday won the Chandigarh Mayor elections by just one vote.

According to officials, while Gupta secured 15 votes, the AAP candidate got 14. A close fight was expected between the BJP and AAP after the Congress, which has six members, and the Shiromani Akali Dal, which has a lone member, decided to abstain.

Both BJP and AAP have 14 councilors each in the House while Chandigarh’s Member of Parliament, who at present is BJP’s Kirron Kher, also has a vote being an ex-officio member of the municipal corporation House. Kher also cast her vote in the polls.

Anup Gupta was previously the Deputy Mayor. A first-time councilor, Gupta was elected in 2021. “I thank my party leadership to have faith in me as they chose me for this post’s candidature. I will run the house with the same dignity the way our previous Mayor (BJP Sarabjit Kaur did,” said Gupta in his address to the house as he took the chair.

Later in the day, elections will also be held for the post of Senior Deputy Mayor and Deputy Mayor.

(With inputs from PTI)

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