NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party’s Shelly Oberoi has been unanimously elected mayor of Delhi MCD after BJP candidate Shikha Rai withdrew her nomination on Wednesday. BJP candidate for Deputy Mayor elections additionally withdrew her candidature. The mayoral election was anticipated to be a direct contest between incumbent Shelly Oberoi from AAP and BJP chief Shikha Rai however the BJP’s withdrawal made the outcomes a clean stroll for the ruling AAP. The polling was held on the Civic Centre the headquarters of the MCD. Oberoi was elected Delhi mayor on February 22 within the fourth try because the earlier elections had been stalled amid a ruckus over voting rights being given to nominated members. She had defeated BJP’s Rekha Gupta by a margin of 34 votes by polling 150 votes. Gupta acquired 116 of the overall 266 votes polled.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal congratulated Oberoi for the victory. “Congratulations Shelly and Aley on again becoming Mayor and Dy Mayor, this time unopposed. Best wishes to both. People have huge expectations from us. Work hard to meet their expectations,” mentioned Kejriwal in a tweet.
The submit of mayor within the nationwide capital sees 5 single-year phrases on a rotational foundation with the primary yr reserved for girls, the second for the open class, the third for the reserved class and the remaining two once more for the open class. The metropolis will get a brand new mayor after the top of a monetary yr.
Earlier this month, AAP’s Oberoi and Aaley Mohammad Iqbal had filed their nominations for the posts of mayor and deputy mayor respectively for a doable second consecutive time period, with the Arvind Kejriwal-led social gathering exuding confidence that its candidates are poised for a win.
According to the Delhi Municipal Corporation (DMC) Act, 1957, the mayor and the deputy mayor are to be elected within the very first session of the House after the civic polls. The civic polls held on December 4 final yr had been the primary after the three companies had been unified into the MCD and a recent delimitation train was carried out, lowering the variety of wards from 272 in 2012 to 250.
The AAP had emerged victorious within the high-stakes polls. The unification of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (104 wards), South Delhi Municipal Corporation (104 wards) and East Delhi Municipal Corporation (64 wards) occurred final yr, with a notification issued to that impact in May 2022. (With company inputs)
