AAP vs BJP As Delhi Will get New Mayor Right this moment: 10 Factors

1. Arvind Kejriwal’s get together has fielded Shelly Oberoi for the highest put up within the civic physique. Difficult her is the BJP’s Shalimar Bagh councillor Rekha Gupta. AAP’s back-up candidate is Ashu Thakur. The nominees for the put up of deputy mayor are AAP’s Aaley Muhammad Iqbal and Jalaj Kumar and Kamal Bagri from the BJP.

2. The election comes amid a row over the appointment of BJP councillor Satya Sharma because the presiding officer for the election. The Lieutenant Governor appointed Mr Sharma as an alternative of Mukesh Goyal, whom AAP had beneficial.

3. AAP chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal accused the Lieutenant Governor, the Centre’s consultant in Delhi, of attempting to affect the election and deliberately choosing members in order that the civic physique is “skewed” in direction of the BJP.

4. “It’s the custom that the senior most member of Home is nominated as protem Speaker or presiding officer. However BJP is hell bent destroying all democratic traditions and Establishments,” tweeted AAP MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj.

5. Mukesh Goyal is the seniormost councilor within the new civic physique. Satya Sharma is a former Mayor of the erstwhile East Delhi Municipal Company. AAP has now appointed Mr Goyal, its Adarsh Nagar councillor, because the Chief of the Home.

6. AAP, which achieved a landslide victory in two consecutive meeting polls in Delhi, gained the civic physique this time, ending the BJP’s 15-year rule. The get together, which based mostly its marketing campaign on the rubbish concern, bagged 134 wards.

7. The BJP, a distant second with 104 wards, has maintained that the Mayor’s put up is an open race. It fielded its candidate after initially suggesting that it will not contest the put up.

8. The Congress, which gained solely 9 seats within the 250-member civic physique, has stated it won’t take part within the election as its Delhi unit has unanimously determined to not assist AAP or the BJP.

9. This was the primary civic elections in Delhi after the redrawing of the wards – an train AAP claimed was a BJP ploy to keep at bay defeat. Although the BJP had not gained any election in Delhi in additional than twenty years, it managed to remain in energy within the civic physique for 15 years.

10. The put up of mayor in Delhi includes 5 single-year phrases on a rotation foundation, with the primary 12 months being reserved for ladies, the second for the open class, third for the reserved class, and the remaining two additionally being within the open class.

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