Amid chaos and clash between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Aam Aadmi Party councillors at the Civic Center on Friday, the MCD House was adjourned even before the commencement of voting for mayoral polls.
Delhi is set to elect its first single mayor in ten years after the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) was unified last year. Aam Aadmi Party, which won the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections, with 134 seats has fielded two candidates- Shelly Oberoi along with Ashu Thakur.Rekha Gupta, a three-term councillor from Shalimar Bagh, is the BJP's nominee for the mayor poll. The AAP has named Aaley Mohammad Iqbal and Jalaj Kumar as the contenders for deputy mayor's post, who have been pitted against Ram Nagar councillor Kamal Bagri. The AAP ended the 15-year-long reign of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the MCD polls that were held on December 4.
In the latest development, AAP has cried foul play over Delhi lieutenant governor's decision to appoint BJP councillor Satya Sharma as the presiding officer of MCD and later the appointment of ten aldermen to the civic body. Stay tuned with India Today for more LIVE updates.
Both the national parties, the BJP and the AAP have been putting in the maximum efforts to ensure that the Mayor, along with maximum members in the Standing Committee, are elected from their party.
There was a ruckus surrounding the swearing-in of new council members. At Civic Centre, BJP and AAP councilors clashed and raised slogans against each other
The Kejriwal government's first day in Delhi Municipal Corporation has been very disappointing and Aam Aadmi Party councillors' behaviour was very unfortunate, said BJP mayor candidate Rekha Gupta on Friday's clash and chaos in the .