Chandigarh Mayor Polls case: BJP's Manoj Sonkar resigns ahead of Supreme Court hearing

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Newly elected Chandigarh Mayor Manoj Sonkar has resigned ahead of a Supreme Court hearing on Monday..

The Congress-AAP alliance had levelled allegations of poll rigging after the BJP swept the Chandigarh mayoral polls on January 30..

The case reached the Supreme Court in early February with issued being issued to the Chandigarh authorities including the civic body..

Wherever there is cross at bottom, he does not touch it and when it is at the top he alters it, please tell returning officer that Supreme Court is watching him," Bar and Bench quoted Chief Justice DY Chandrachud as saying...

An AAP councillor challenged a Punjab and Haryana High Court order that refused to grant any interim relief to the party seeking fresh mayoral polls in Chandigarh..

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