Raja Iqbal elected Mayor, Yadav Deputy Mayor as BJP stages comeback in MCD
Singh secured 133 votes defeating Mandeep Singh of Congress by 125 votes, who could only manage eight of the 142 votes cast. One vote was declared invalid.
Singh secured 133 votes defeating Mandeep Singh of Congress by 125 votes, who could only manage eight of the 142 votes cast. One vote was declared invalid.
While the mayor is a confidante of state CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, the deputy mayor is filled with gratitude to state Congress Committee chief Pratibha Singh.
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is scheduled to hold elections for the positions of mayor and deputy mayor on Wednesday.
In the polling for deputy mayor, the Bhartiya Janata Party's candidate got 116 votes. Two votes were found invalid.
AAP on Friday announced Shelly Oberoi as its candidate for the post of Mayor and Aaley Muhammad Iqbal for the Deputy Mayor post.
Action came shortly after the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) registered an FIR and launched investigations into complaints of corruption and nepotism against top functionaries of the J-K Bank.
