Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Jan 24: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) will reconvene today to elect its first woman mayor in a decade and a deputy mayor, the proceedings of which will begin at 11 am. Before the commotion between members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), it was supposed to take place on January 6.
At the Municipal Corporation of Delhi meeting on Tuesday, the elected council members will take the oath first, followed by the nominated members.
Delhi | Heavy Security deployed inside Civic Centre, MCD Headquarters ahead of the elections to the coveted posts of Mayor, Deputy Mayor of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and Six members of the Standing Committee from the House. pic.twitter.com/7QsMk8dKuK
— ANI (@ANI) January 24, 2023
As the inaugural meeting of the newly elected Municipal Corporation of Delhi House got underway earlier, councillors from both parties got into a spat over the appointment of 10 aldermen by Lt. Governor VK Saxena, according to news agency PTI. Prior to the start of the mayor election voting, the MCD house was adjourned.
AAP MLAs and council members started to protest after Satya Sharma asked alderman Manoj Kumar to take an oath. Additionally, a large number of people flocked to the House well to yell slogans and obstruct the House’s business.
Following the unification of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) last year, Delhi will soon elect its first single mayor in ten years. Two candidates from the Aam Aadmi Party, who won the MCD elections with 134 seats, are Shelly Oberoi and Ashu Thakur. The BJP’s candidate for mayor is Rekha Gupta, a three-term councillor representing Shalimar Bagh.
Aaley Mohammad Iqbal and Jalaj Kumar, who are competing against Ram Nagar councillor Kamal Bagri for the position of deputy mayor, have been nominated by the AAP. In the MCD elections on December 4, the AAP toppled the Bharatiya Janata Party’s 15-year rule.
