Chandigarh civic polls: BJP bags 21 out of 27 seats

CHANDIGARH: Giving major jolt to the Congress, which had been ruling the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation from past 14 years, BJP-SAD alliance clinched 21 municipal seats out of total 26 seat of Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh. Congress won merely 4 seats, while one seat was won by an independent candidate, who was a BJP rebel.With this BJP-SAD alliance has come with a comfortable majority in the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation. As there is need of 19 votes in the mayoral poll to win seats of mayor, senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor, it seems that BJP-SAD will have their mayor for next five years. BJP had contested on 22 seats, while SAD was given 4 seats.Sitting mayor and BJP candidates Arun Sood also managed to win his seat from the margin of over 2,000 votes. He defeated Congress candidate Rajesh Sharma.Congress suffered major loss, as its all bigwigs of city politics, comprising three former mayors namelySubhash Chawla, Harphool Chander Kalyan and Poonam Sharma, who is also a Chandigarh Congress Women Wing president lost their seats.Since Congress had given tickets of all 26 municipal wards to the loyalists of former union minster PK Bansal, it is major Jolt for Bansal's camp, as they could win only 4 seats.Soon after the results started coming out, BJP supporters came out heavily on the city roads and traffic jam also witnessed on many roads due to this. Now, BJP will brief media at 3 PM at party office in sector 33.