Upset over the choice to nominate Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councilor Damanpreet Singh as chief of opposition in municipal company, eight of the fourteen councilors have written a letter to AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, co-in-charge of Chandigarh unit Kulwant Singh, AAP’s Punjab and Chandigarh co-in-charge Jarnail Singh alleging favouritism.

In the 35-member MC House, each the AAP and the BJP have 14 members every, whereas six councilors are from the Congress and one from the SAD.

Last 12 months, Yogesh Dhingra was the chief of the opposition.

Speaking in regards to the newest developments with HT, AAP councillors mentioned, “We were told that there will be a meeting of all 14 councillors to appoint the leader of opposition, but today we were shocked that they appointed Damanpreet Singh as leader of opposition.”

Chandigarh AAP president Prem Garg, in the meantime, mentioned, “We have not made any official announcement and told Damanpreet Singh verbally that he will be appointed as leader of opposition and he posted that on social media. A few AAP councilors resented this and gave a letter. The issue will be sorted out as we will be calling the meeting of the councilors soon.”

A copy of the aforementioned letter stated, “We 14 municipal councillors went into the elections with utmost dedication and sincerity having full faith in the party and having faith in the ideology of the party and we always committed to work with the party by keeping in discipline of party. But, we came to know that without the consent of the signed fourteen municipal councillors, the election of Leader of the opposition party has been done, which is not good in the interest of the party and as well as injustice with us.”

“It can be intimated that in the course of the elections of Mayor we the undersigned councilors carried out collectively. But, the motion of election of LoP in Chandigarh at your individual stage will create a groupism within the social gathering of Chandigarh Unit, which is completely towards the pursuits of the social gathering,” it additional learn.