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.
Mahesh Khichi has filed his nomination for the elections to the mayoral post.
According to reports, Adesh Gupta has submitted his resignation to the party's national president JP Nadda.
The party will now “expose the corrupt Aam Aadmi Party", said Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta while addressing the media for the first time after losing the MCD polls.
DPCC) president Chaudhary Anil Kumar pointed out that Congress’ vote share has jumped from 4.26 to 12 per cent while the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) vote share, which was 54 per cent during the Assembly elections in 2020, slumped to 42 per cent, and that of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) remaining static at 39 per cent.
The voting for civic body polls is underway amid tight security across the national capital. The voting for 250 wards began at 8 am and will conclude at 5:30 pm.
Over 1.45 crore people are eligible to vote in civic polls in which 1,349 candidates are in the fray, setting the stage for the high-stakes civic polls largely seen as a three-way contest between the BJP, the AAP and the Congress.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday urged the people in the national capital to exercise their franchise for setting up an "honest party that works not for those who stop the works".
"The BJP was in power in MCD for 15 years and it turned Delhi into a capital of garbage mounds and stray animals," he claimed in a tweet.
The high-stakes Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections will take place on Sunday and the counting of votes will be held on December 7.
