Summary:
Chandigarh, Nov 25 (PTI) High drama unfolded on Thursday during the voting on a no-confidence against Patiala Mayor Sanjeev Sharma Bittu with Punjab Minister Brahm Mohindra claiming that the city"s municipal corporation chief has been suspended after losing the trust vote.
Rejecting Mohindra’s claim that the mayor has been suspended after losing the confidence by 11 votes, Bittu, a protégé of former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, said he needed only 21 votes and he had easily achieved the number needed.
Mohindra had claimed that Bittu had lost the motion after securing merely 25 votes in favour and 36 against him.
“I am not a new mayor being elected who needed the number of 31 votes (of councillors).
Under the no-confidence motion which was brought, I needed one-third, which I got,” Bittu told reporters in Patiala.
Mohindra, however, claimed the Patiala Municipal Corporation mayor had failed to prove the majority.