Chandigarh mayoral polls: It is BJP vs Congress-AAP

Chandigarh mayoral election: BJP and Congress-AAP alliance compete to win, AAP candidate seeks court supervision for fair election.

The Chandigarh mayoral polls will take place on Thursday with both the BJP and the Congress-AAP alliance claiming they are set to win the election.

The mayoral polls this time assume significance as the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party -- both INDIA bloc members -- have joined hands to contest the elections to oust the BJP from the chair of mayor which it has been winning for the last eight years.

Meanwhile, AAP candidate for the post of mayor Kuldeep Kumar moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court Thursday evening, seeking appointment of a court commissioner to supervise the Chandigarh mayoral poll process in order to ensure free and fair election.

During the urgent hearing on Wednesday night, a division bench of Justices Deepak Sibal and Deepak Manchanda did not accept the plea of appointing the court commissioner for supervising the mayoral polls.

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While speaking to reporters after the hearing, the petitioner's counsel Ramanpreet Bara said that the UT administration during the hearing accepted the withdrawal of the nominations of Congress nominee for mayor post Jasbir Singh Bunty and AAP's candidates Neha Musavat and Poonam for the posts of senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor, respectively.

Senior standing counsel Anil Mehta submitted in the court that like earlier, videography of the entire election process would be conducted.