Delhi MCD Mayor Election Live Updates: AAP’s Aaley Mohammad Iqbal was elected as the Deputy Mayor; election for six members of the Standing Committee is underway.
Delhi Mayoral Election Live Updates: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)’s Shelly Oberoi was elected as the Mayor of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). She won the election, which was held during the MCD House meeting, with 150 votes, against 116 for BJP’s Rekha Gupta. Congratulating Oberoi on her win, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said, “people of Delhi won and hooliganism has been defeated.”
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Addressing the MCD House for the first time, Oberoi thanked Kejriwal, Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, and the Lieutenant Governor, and said that she will follow the rules of the DMC Act and will run the MCD as per the rules and regulations. “We will all work together to fulfil the dreams of the people of Delhi,” she added.
After the results were declared, Oberoi took over from presiding officer, BJP’s Satya Sharma. AAP’s Aaley Mohammad Iqbal was elected as the Deputy Mayor, after he won with 147 votes, out of the total 266 votes cast. Two votes were declared invalid.
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Satya Sharma, the Presiding Officer for the mayoral election in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), said on February 6 that aldermen — who are nominated members — are allowed to vote in the House and elect the Mayor, Deputy Mayor, and members of the Standing Committee as per the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957. The Supreme Court, on Friday, held that they cannot.
Sharma, a BJP councillor who was in January nominated as Presiding Officer by Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena, also proposed that voting for all three elections should be held simultaneously. The SC has now held that this cannot be the case and that the Mayor should be elected first who will then preside over the election of the deputy mayor and standing committee members.
While protesting the swearing-in of aldermen ahead of elected councillors, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had expressed the apprehension that this was being done to provide aldermen with voting rights, which they do not have under the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957. This apprehension had come true but has now been effectively struck down.
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First published on: 22-02-2023 at 09:25 IST
