Following the mayoral election, Delhi will have a mayor for the entire city for the first time in ten years...
Digital Desk: After the recent high-stakes civic polls in the national capital, the municipal house reconvened today to elect the mayor and deputy mayor of Delhi, weeks after the first session was suspended due to a spat between the AAP and the BJP.
Following the mayoral election, Delhi will have a mayor for the entire city for the first time in ten years.
The newly elected 250-member MCD (Municipal Corporation of Delhi) House adjourned its first meeting on January 6 without electing the mayor and deputy mayor, despite loud protests from Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillors over the presiding officer's decision to administer the oath to the 10 aldermen first.
House proceedings began at 11 a.m., according to the MCD's schedule.
Despite the AAP's strong resistance at the last meeting, Presiding Officer Satya Sharma stated on Monday that the Lt Governor-appointed aldermen will take the oath first.
The agenda for the January 24 meeting said that councillors and members nominated in accordance with the DMC Act, 1957 (as amended in 2022) will take the oath. It does not, however, dictate the order of the oath-taking.
The municipal elections were held on December 4, and the results were counted on December 7.
The AAP was a decisive winner in the elections, taking 134 wards and ending the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) 15-year reign in the local body.
The AAP's candidates for mayor are Shelly Oberoi and Ashu Thakur. Rekha Gupta has been nominated by the BJP Party.
Aaley Mohammad Iqbal and Jalaj Kumar (AAP) and Kamal Bagri are the candidates for deputy mayor (BJP).
In addition to the mayor and deputy mayor, six members of the MCD's standing committee will be elected at the municipal House.
In the national capital, the mayor is elected for five single-year terms on a rotating basis, with the first year reserved for women, the second for the open category, the third for the reserved category, and the remaining two for the open category.
As a result, Delhi will have a female mayor this year.
The mayor will be elected by 250 councillors, seven Lok Sabha and three Rajya Sabha MPs from Delhi, and 14 Legislative Assembly-nominated MLAs.
The Speaker of the Delhi Assembly has appointed one BJP MLA and thirteen AAP MLAs to the MCD.
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