Delhi Mayor Election: The voting is over and the counting course of is presently on.
New Delhi:
Chaos overtook the mayoral election in Delhi at present because the Congress boycotted the ballot, demanding that the brand new Mayor-who can be a Dalit — serve a full time period. The election, usually held each April, has been delayed over a tussle between the ruling Aam Aadmi Party and the BJP, and the brand new Mayor is predicted to get solely a five-month time period. Amid the chaos, Congress’s Mohammad Khushnood and his spouse Sabila Begum — Councillor of Mustafabad Ward 243) — resigned from the first membership of the get together, saying she would vote for the AAP candidate. While the seven Congress members walked out because the voting began, she stayed again to vote.
The voting over, the counting course of is presently on.
In her resignation letter, Sabila Begum stated her objection was to the get together’s walkout determination, which might solely profit the BJP.
“Just a few days in the past, the election of a member of the standing committee was to be held. In that too, the Congress councillors got the order to stroll out, the results of which was that the BJP candidate gained and the BJP captured the standing committee. In the final mayor election additionally we had walked out on the order of the get together, resulting from which we needed to face the anger of our individuals in our ward,’ her letter learn.
“I resign from the first membership of the Congress Party as a result of the ward from which I’m a Municipal Councillor is a Muslim dominated space and the individuals of the realm can’t help the BJP in any approach,” the letter added.
The preliminary delay within the election passed off as then Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was in judicial custody within the excise coverage case.
Then AAP boycotted the election held in September after the councillors have been frisked. That time too, the Congress had abstained from voting.
There was additional delay over procedural disputes, together with the appointment of a presiding officer by the Lieutenant Governor.
The coming time period is supposed for a candidate from a reserved class. The guidelines say the submit, for which elections are held yearly, have classes on a rotational foundation. The first 12 months is reserved for girls, the second is for open class, the third for the reserved class, and the final two once more are open class.
Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP has fielded Mahesh Khichi, councillor from Devnagar, for the mayor’s submit, who’s up in opposition to the BJP’s Kishan Lal. The battle for the Deputy Mayor submit is between AAP’s Ravinder Bharadwaj, councillor of Aman Vihar and Nita Bisht.
This is the third mayoral election after the AAP ended the BJP’s 15-year run on the civic physique in December 2022. AAP’s Shelly Oberoi is the outgoing Mayor and her Deputy is Mohammed Iqbal.