BJP Wins 'Manipulated' Vote for Mayor in Chandigarh; How Gandhi's Ram Rajya Stacks Up Against Modi's India

Jan 30, 2024

∙ Paid

A newsletter from The Wire | Founded by MK Venu, Seema Chishti, Siddharth Varadarajan, Sushant Singh, Sidharth Bhatia, Pratik Kanjilal and Tanweer Alam | Contributing writer: Kalrav Joshi, with additional inputs by Anirudh SK

Snapshot of the day

January 30, 2024

Siddharth Varadarajan

The BJP, which has 14 councillors and two additional votes pulled off an improbable victory in Tuesday’s election for the mayor of Chandigarh. Despite the joint INDIA candidate fielded by the Aam Aadmi Party and Congress having 20 councillors – a clear majority – on his side, he lost. Here’s how this happened:

Keep reading with a 7-day free trial

Subscribe to The India Cable to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.