Cong sweeps mayor polls in Punjab

Jan 02, 2011 - AGE CORRESPONDENT |

Chandigarh

Steered deftly by Union parliamentary affairs minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, the Congress kicked off the New Year with a clean sweep of Chandigarh’s mayoral elections on Saturday morning.
Though afflicted by rebellion, the ruling Congress successfully held onto all three top posts. Its nominee Ravinder Singh was elected mayor of Chandigarh while Kuldeep Kajheri and Sheila Phul Singh won as senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor.
Ravinder Singh defeated rebel Congress man Jagjit Singh Kang by a solitary vote at the end of a keenly contested poll. A younger brother of former Punjab Congress minister Jagmohan Kang, Jagjit Kang had the support of the Opposition BJP, Shiromani Akali Dal and Bahujan Samaj Party.

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Remand of Raja Bhaiyya extended
age correspondent
lucknow

Jan. 1: The judicial remand of Independent MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh a.k.a. Raja Bhaiyya, Samajwadi MP Shailendra Kumar, SP MLC Akshay Pratap Singh, SP MLA Vinod Saroj and seven others has been extended by another 14 days. CJM Manjula Sarkar extended the custody on the plea of the prosecution that they needed more time for investigations into the charges against Raja Bhaiyya and others.

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