Delhi BJP President Adesh Gupta resigns after defeat in MCD elections
According to reports, Adesh Gupta has submitted his resignation to the party's national president JP Nadda.
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.
Major concern for the party is that even though its vote share, at 42.05 per cent, was double of 2017's 21.09 per cent, it has lost around 12 per cent of its vote share since the last Assembly polls.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won the MCD polls with 134 of the total 250 wards in the national capital's civic body polls.
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.
The high-stakes polls to the 272-ward Municipal Corporation of Delhi are due on December 4 and the votes will be counted on December 7.
Delhi Metro train services on all lines will commence from 4 in the morning from all terminals on the day of Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls on December 4, a DMRC spokesperson said on Friday.