AAP MLA Durgesh Pathak, in a press conference, said Sabila Begum, a councillor from Mustafabad ward and Nazia Khatoon, a councillor from Brij Puri ward, have left the grand old party and joined the AAP.
Two newly-elected Congress councillors join AAP
Delhi Congress vice-president Ali Mehdi, along with two newly-elected Congress councilors, on Friday, joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
AAP MLA Durgesh Pathak, in a press conference, said Sabila Begum, a councillor from Mustafabad ward and Nazia Khatoon, a councillor from Brij Puri ward, have left the grand old party and joined the AAP.
Hundreds of Congress leaders also joined AAP along with Mehdi.
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Before joining the AAP, Ali Mehdi was vice-president of the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee till yesterday.
“Because of Arvind Kejriwal’s political leadership, I am leaving Congress and joining Aam Aadmi Party,” Mehdi said.
Pathak said the remaining Congress councilors should also join the AAP. He even appealed to the winning BJP councilors to join AAP.
With this, the number of AAP councillors in the MCD will rise to 136 while the number of Congress councillors will come down to seven.
The AAP on Wednesday stormed to power in the MCD, ending the 15-year rule of the BJP in the powerful civic body of the National Capital.
The AAP won 134 of the 250 wards while the saffron party, which had been ruling the civic body since 2007, bagged 104 seats. The Congress finished a poor third with nine seats while Independents bagged three wards.
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