Phagwara, Jan. 29 -- Three newly elected Congress councillors and one councillor from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) joined the Aam Aadmi Party, taking its tally to 16 seats in the Phagwara municipal corporation.

Congress councillors, including Munish Prabhakar, Ram Pal Uppal, Pawan Sharma Pappi and BJP's Paramjit Singh Khurana, switched loyalty to AAP. AAP's which won 12 seats in the civic body polls is still 10 short of the majority mark of 26 in a 51-member house, which also includes the vote of Congress MLA Balwinder Singh Dhaliwal as the ex-officio member.

Congress won 21 seats in the polls and managed to secure the support of three of the BSP, four independent councillors. With the vote of its MLA included its tally was 29. But ...