Chandigarh, Feb. 24 -- With just months to go before the Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) general elections, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) suffered another setback on Monday as one of its councillors, Prem Lata, who represents Ward 23 (Sectors 34, 35 and 43), quit the party along with her supporters and joined the Congress.

The AAP, which had stormed the MC House with a majority of 14 councillors after the 2021 general elections, has seen several defections in the past four years, and is now left with just 10 councillors in the House. Just recently, two AAP councillors - Poonam and Suman Sharma - had also deserted the party to join the BJP in the run up to the mayoral elections. Earlier in 2023, then AAP councillor Taruna Mehta joined t...