<p>Chandigarh: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday evening took out a candle march in Maloya here against the alleged rigging in the recently held Chandigarh mayoral elections.</p>.<p>Led by AAP's Chandigarh unit co-in-charge Sunny Ahluwalia, the protesters accused the BJP of 'stealing' votes in the mayoral elections.</p>.<p>"We are fighting to save our democracy and fair elections are the responsibility of every political party but the BJP is working to eradicate the whole election process," Ahluwalia alleged.</p>.Police use water cannon to disperse NSUI members protesting over Chandigarh mayoral polls rigging.<p>He added that the people of the country would never tolerate a 'dictatorial' party like the BJP, which will face defeat in the upcoming general elections.</p>.<p>Ahluwalia said despite presiding officer Anil Masih being caught 'tampering' with ballot papers in a video, no action has been taken against him.</p>.<p>The Congress and AAP have been holding protests against the alleged rigging in the mayoral polls for the past several days.</p>.<p>The BJP on January 30 swept the Chandigarh mayoral polls against the Congress-AAP alliance.</p>.<p>Manoj Sonkar of the BJP defeated the AAP's Kuldeep Kumar for the mayor's post, polling 16 votes against his rival's 12. Eight votes were declared invalid.</p>.<p>The opposition councillors alleged that the presiding officer had tampered with the ballot papers, a charge rubbished by the BJP.</p>.<p>Appalled by the alleged defacing of ballot papers, the Supreme Court on Monday said it amounted to a mockery of democracy and ordered that the ballots and the video of the electoral proceedings be preserved.</p>.<p>Taking note of an AAP councillor's plea alleging wrongdoing during the polls, the court issued notices to the Chandigarh authorities, including the civic body.</p>.<p>A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, Justice J B Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra expressed annoyance after watching the video of the electoral proceedings and said that, prima facie, the returning officer was defacing the ballot papers. </p>
<p>Chandigarh: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday evening took out a candle march in Maloya here against the alleged rigging in the recently held Chandigarh mayoral elections.</p>.<p>Led by AAP's Chandigarh unit co-in-charge Sunny Ahluwalia, the protesters accused the BJP of 'stealing' votes in the mayoral elections.</p>.<p>"We are fighting to save our democracy and fair elections are the responsibility of every political party but the BJP is working to eradicate the whole election process," Ahluwalia alleged.</p>.Police use water cannon to disperse NSUI members protesting over Chandigarh mayoral polls rigging.<p>He added that the people of the country would never tolerate a 'dictatorial' party like the BJP, which will face defeat in the upcoming general elections.</p>.<p>Ahluwalia said despite presiding officer Anil Masih being caught 'tampering' with ballot papers in a video, no action has been taken against him.</p>.<p>The Congress and AAP have been holding protests against the alleged rigging in the mayoral polls for the past several days.</p>.<p>The BJP on January 30 swept the Chandigarh mayoral polls against the Congress-AAP alliance.</p>.<p>Manoj Sonkar of the BJP defeated the AAP's Kuldeep Kumar for the mayor's post, polling 16 votes against his rival's 12. Eight votes were declared invalid.</p>.<p>The opposition councillors alleged that the presiding officer had tampered with the ballot papers, a charge rubbished by the BJP.</p>.<p>Appalled by the alleged defacing of ballot papers, the Supreme Court on Monday said it amounted to a mockery of democracy and ordered that the ballots and the video of the electoral proceedings be preserved.</p>.<p>Taking note of an AAP councillor's plea alleging wrongdoing during the polls, the court issued notices to the Chandigarh authorities, including the civic body.</p>.<p>A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, Justice J B Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra expressed annoyance after watching the video of the electoral proceedings and said that, prima facie, the returning officer was defacing the ballot papers. </p>