Newly elected municipal councillor from the Congress, Harpreet Kaur Babla switched over to the BJP on Sunday, days after civic polls in Chandigarh threw up a hung verdict.
Harpreet, the councillor from ward number 10, joined the BJP along with her husband and senior Congress leader Devinder Babla in the presence of Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, local MP Kirron Kher, Chandigarh BJP chief Arun Sood and former Chandigarh BJP president Sanjay Tandon here.
The Congress had on Sunday expelled Devinder Babla, a day after he had heated arguments with Chandigarh Congress president Subhash Chawla at the Municipal Corporation Bhawan in Sector-17 here.
Notably, the results of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation polls which were declared on December 27, gave a hung verdict, with the AAP winning 14 of the 35 wards and the BJP bagging 12. The Congress had won eight seats while the Shiromani Akali Dal got one.
In the present MCC House, in case of full attendance - 36 (35 councillors plus one MP vote), a winning candidate for the coveted post of Mayor would require 19 votes.