Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, January 22
Satish Kumar Kainth, the councillor who was expelled from the BJP for contesting mayoral elections, has questioned the formation of a probe committee by the Chandigarh BJP to inquire into cross voting.
In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Kainth stated that he had lost the mayoral election by just five votes, getting the support of seven to eight party councillors. He stated that senior leaders of the party backed him but he was ignored and the councillor with a tainted past was made the party candidate.
He said the committee included a councillor, Ravi Kant Sharma, who had voted in the elections. He said it seemed the party had given a clean chit to him even before holding a probe into the issue. Kainth stated that it showed bias towards him.
Kainth further wrote that the image of the party received a setback due to it. He has sought time from the Prime Minister to explain the situation at present.
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