Summary:
Mayor, senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor in Chandigarh are elected from amongst the elected councillors every year. The other two posts that will be contested in this election, deputy mayor and senior deputy mayor, are open. “It will surely help us. You have seen how the BJP’s own councillors opposed the outgoing BJP Mayor Davesh Moudgil. With just four councillors in the House, the Congress is pinning hope on the city BJP’s factionalism, which, as per the party, will “surely help” it in the upcoming mayoral polls on January 18..