BJP’s councillor Ravi Kant Sharma became the new Chandigarh Mayor on Friday. He got 17 votes of the 24 polled, while Congress candidate Devinder Singh Babla got only five votes.
City MP Kirron Kher and councillor Heera Negi couldn’t attend the election because of poor health. After Ravi Kant Sharma was declared Mayor, all five Congress boycotted the Senior Deputy and Deputy Mayor polls, alleging cameras were used during the polls by the BJP.
The elections for the post of Mayor, Senior Deputy Mayor and Deputy Mayor of the MC for 2021 commenced at 11 am today.
The Congress had only five councillors in the House, but it was hoping to get support of councillors of the BJP. Cross-voting won’t be a first for the party, as in 2019 elections, too, rebel candidate (Satish Kainth) had managed to get 11 votes.
In an order issued on Thursday, the MC Secretary stated that no mobile phone, camera or any electronic gadget will be allowed in the Assembly Hall of the civic body during the election process.
Akali Dal boycotts election
SAD Chandigarh head and Councillor Hardeep Singh said that both BJP and Congress have appealed to vote in their own favour. “But we demand that the three agricultural laws are withdrawn, only then we will vote,” he said. The party did not vote for anyone in the mayoral election but opposed it. As a protest, Singh went to the House wearing a black kurta.
Past Mayor’s terms:
- Kamla Sharma- 23 December, 1996 to 22 December, 1997
- Gyan Chand Gupta- 23 December, 1997 to 12 December, 1998
- Kewal Krishna Adiwal- 23 December, 1998 to 22 December, 1999
- Shanta Hit Abhilashi- 23 December, 1999 to 22 December, 2000
- Raj Kumar Goyal- 23 December, 2000 to 21 July, 2001
- Gurcharan Dass – 22 July, 2001 to 17 August, 2001
- Harjinder Kaur- 18 August, 2001 to 22 December, 2001
- Lalit Joshi 01 January 2002 to 31 December 2002
- Subhash Chawla 01 January 2003 to 31 December 2003
- Kamlesh 01 January 2004 to 31 December 2004
- Anu Chatrath 01 January 2005 to 31 December 2005
- Surinder Singh 01 January 2006 to 31 December 2006
- Harjinder Kaur 11 January 2007 to 31 December 2007
- Pradeep Chhabra 01 January 2008 to 31 December 2008
- Kamlesh 01 December 2009 to 31 December 2009
- Anu Charath 01 January 2010 to 31 December 2010
- Ravinder Pal Singh 01 January 2011 to 31 December 2011
- Raj Bala Malik 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012
- Subhash Chawla 01 January 2013 to 31 December 2013
- Harphool Chandra Kalyan 01 January 2014 to 05 January 2015
- Poonam Sharma 06 January 2015 to 07 January 2016
- Arun Sood 8 January 2016 to 31 December 2016
- Asha Kumari Jaswal 12 January 2017 to 08 January 2018
- Davesh Moudgil 9 January 2018 to 18 January 2019
- Rajesh Kumar Kalia 18 January 2019 to 8 January 2020
- Raj Bala Malik 8 January 2020 to 8 January 2021
