BJP Wins Chandigarh Mayor Elections In First Poll Battle Versus INDIA Bloc | Read

The Bharatiya Janta Party's (BJP) Manoj Sonkar won the Chandigarh mayoral elections today, defeating the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Kuldeep Kumar. The BJP was pitted against an alliance between the Congress and AAP, in the first contest between the newly formed Opposition coalition and the NDA, following Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's sensational switchover to the latter. The BJP won 16 seats in the 35-member Chandigarh municipal corporation while eight votes were declared invalid.