Mayor, Sood hatched conspiracy to defeat me: Negi

Rajinder Nagarkoti

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Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 25

Former Senior Deputy Mayor and BJP councillor Heera Negi, who lost the Finance and Contract Committee (F&CC) elections yesterday, has blamed Mayor Asha Jaswal and former Mayor and BJP councillor Arun Sood for her ‘shocking’ defeat.

While talking to Chandigarh Tribune, Negi said, “It is not Heera Negi’s defeat but it is the defeat of the BJP. Jaswal and Sood hatched a conspiracy, which led to my defeat,” Negi said.

“I had opposed the list of councillors allotted to me. I had told the Mayor to change the entire list but in vain. Even the list was finalised without consulting me. The list of councillors, who were to vote for me, was shown to me just minutes before the MC meeting. Had they changed the list in time, I would have won,” Negi said.

Negi also raised question on how Sood got seven votes, when only six were allotted to him.

“I will write to party president Amit Shah, Chandigarh unit president Sanjay Tandon and MP Kirron Kher to conduct a detailed inquiry into the defeat. This is the second time I was targeted. Even in the 2015 Mayoral polls, I was targeted and eventually I lost the elections for the post of Mayor,” Negi said.

The party had decided that six BJP councillors would vote for Negi, they were Mahesh Inder Singh Sidhu, Raj Bala Malik, Heera Negi, Rajesh Gupta, Farmila and Chandrawati Shukla.

Similarly, the party had decided six councillors for other BJP candidates like Arun Sood, Jagtar Jagga, Kanwar Rana and nominated councillor Ajay Datta.

During the poll, Heera Negi only got four votes whereas Sood got seven votes.

Victory of honesty

" It is the victory of honesty. Now, I will ensure that all policies, which will be finalised in the F&CC, will be for the welfare of city residents ." — Davinder Babla, Congress winning candidate

There was plan to defeat Kanwarjeet Singh too 

Sources said there was a plan to defeat another BJP councillor Kanwarjeet Singh too, who is MP Kirron Kher’s loyalist. They party had allotted him six councillors — Hardeep Singh, Davesh Moudgil, Kanwarjeet Singh, Anil Dubey, Ravi Kant Sharma and Rajesh Kalia. Kanwarjeet Singh had managed Independent Councillor Dalip Sharma’s vote for himself. But instead of getting seven votes, Kanwarjeet Singh only got six votes. Sources said one of the BJP councillors, allotted to Kanwarjeet Singh, did not vote for him. 

Guilty will be punished

"Since I am busy with the election duty in Rajpura, I have deputed Mayor Asha Jaswal and general secretary Chander Shekhar, to hold a meeting of all six councillors, including Heera Negi, and submit the report to me. If anyone is found guilty, the party will take strict action against that person and the party can even suspend the guilty person for anti-party activity." — Sanjay Tandon, Chandigarh BJP president