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AAP's Shelly Oberoi Is Delhi Mayor, Occasion Beats BJP By 34 Votes

AAP's Shelly Oberoi Is Delhi Mayor, Occasion Beats BJP By 34 Votes [ad_1]

Shelly Oberoi will probably be Delhi's new mayor.

New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Occasion's Shelly Oberoi was elected Delhi's new mayor, defeating BJP's Rekha Gupta by 34 votes after a bitterly fought election that needed to be known as off 3 times, officers introduced on Wednesday.

Listed below are the ten newest developments on this story:

  1. Shelly Oberoi acquired 150 votes whereas Rekha Gupta 116 out of the full 266 polled within the election held after a decisive victory for AAP within the Supreme Court docket.

  2. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia congratulated Ms Oberoi and the get together staff. "The goons misplaced, the general public received. Immediately within the Municipal Company of Delhi, the folks of Delhi received and hooliganism was defeated," Mr Kejriwal stated.

  3. Because the civic elections in December, which the AAP received, the mayoral elections had been postponed thrice amid a protracted tussle between the AAP and the BJP.

  4. Mr Oberoi had approached the highest courtroom, difficult the BJP's rivalry that the aldermen - 10 members nominated by the capital's Lieutenant Governor, a consultant of the BJP-led authorities on the centre - are allowed to vote within the election.

  5. Judges led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud stated nominated members can not vote within the election. "Nominated members can not go for election. The constitutional provision could be very clear," the courtroom noticed.

  6. After the election of the Mayor, the Deputy Mayor, and 6 members of the Standing Committee will probably be elected. Within the election for the Standing Committee, AAP is more likely to win three seats and the BJP two. The combat is over the sixth seat.

  7. If the alderman had been allowed to vote, the power of the BJP would have gone as much as 123 from 113. AAP has 150 votes within the 274-member home, the place the bulk mark stands at 138.

  8. So, whereas it will not have affected the end result of the mayoral election, the BJP may have scooped up a vital chunk of the Standing Committee, understood to be essentially the most highly effective physique within the civic physique. The Congress has stated it will abstain, sparking allegations of "deal-making with the BJP" from AAP councillors.

  9. AAP received 134 of 250 wards within the first municipal election held after the merging of the MCD and redrawing of constituencies final yr. The BJP completed second after controlling the civic physique for 15 years.

  10. AAP had earlier objected to Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena naming the ten aldermen with out consulting the Delhi authorities. Oath-taking by the ten nominated aldermen and the query of their voting had stalled the mayor election thrice. The election was postponed the fourth time to accommodate the Supreme Court docket listening to.




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