Manoj Sonkar, the leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), resigned as the mayor of Chandigarh one day prior to the Supreme Court hearing over the alleged anomalies in the vote-counting process.The controversial elections The January 30 mayoral elections were won by the BJP candidate, who received 16 votes to his opponents 12. Following the polling officials declaration of eight ballots as invalid, the victory was achieved.X/TwitterUnleasing the truth! In their appeal to the Supreme Court, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which had partnered with the Congress for the mayoral elections, used a video purporting to show the returning officer destroying ballot papers while the results were being counted.X/TwitterThe Supreme Court bench bashes the doingsThe video of the purported incident was displayed on a bench chaired by Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud. On February 5, the SC bench harshly criticised the returning officer, stating that the officers acts amounted to murder of democracy and that it was a mockery of democracy.X/Twitter
