After the defeat in the assembly elections, now the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has decided not to contest the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections. Former Chief Minister Atishi and Delhi party president Saurabh Bhardwaj gave this information on Monday. The election will be held on April 25. In the party’s press conference, both the leaders said that the BJP had stopped the MCD elections earlier as well. During delimitation, the wards were shifted here and there. There was tremendous disturbance and corruption during the delimitation. Despite this, the election was lost and the AAP government was formed. Even after this, a lot of drama was created by the BJP councilors in the MCD meetings. Saurabh Bhardwaj said that the BJP is trying to bring our councilors to its side by scaring, threatening and luring them. After which we have decided that this time we will not field our candidate in the mayor election. Bhardwaj said that without any hindrance, the BJP should make its mayor and run the four-engine government without making any excuse and show the work to the people of Delhi. With this decision of AAP, the unopposed election of BJP candidate for Delhi Mayor is now certain. Here, after AAP’s press conference, BJP has announced the Mayor and Deputy Mayor candidates. The party has made Sardar Raja Iqbal Singh the Mayor and Jai Bhagwan Yadav the Deputy Mayor candidate. Both will file nomination today. BJP has majority
AAP has given a walkover to BJP in the MCD elections. But if elections are held, then the majority is also in favor of BJP. There are 238 councilors in MCD at present. If we add the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs, nominated MLAs, then the total strength reaches 262. That means 132 votes are needed to make your own mayor. If we add the votes of 117 BJP councilors, seven Lok Sabha members and 11 nominated MLAs, then the figure reaches 135, which is 3 more than the majority. In the last mayor election, AAP won by 3 votes
Before this, Delhi Mayor election was held in November. AAP candidate Mahesh Khinchi defeated BJP’s Kishan Lal by 3 votes. Khinchi got 133 votes, while Lal got 130 votes. 2 votes were declared invalid. Actually, 10 AAP councilors did cross voting. 132 votes were cast in favor of AAP in the election. BJP also got 132 votes, but two of these votes were declared invalid. On the other hand, after the protest of Congress during voting, 1 councilor Sabila Begum stopped and voted for AAP, due to which AAP got one more vote and its figure became 133. In this way, BJP got 130 and Aam Aadmi Party got 133 votes. 8 Congress councilors boycotted the election and did not participate in the voting process. Due to the long-running dispute between AAP and BJP, the elections were postponed from April. In February, 3 AAP councilors joined BJP In February, 3 Aam Aadmi Party councilors joined BJP. Among those who joined BJP were Councillor Anita Basoya from Andrews Ganj, Councillor Dharamvir from RK Puram and Councillor Nikhil from Chaprana. BJP President Virendra Sachdeva got them inducted into the party. Apart from these, 4 AAP leaders also joined BJP. Sandeep Basoya joined BJP along with his supporters. He has been the District President of New Delhi from AAP. Read full news… BJP won 48 seats in Delhi Assembly Elections, AAP’s seats reduced to 22 In the Delhi election results that came on 8 February, BJP returned to power after 26 years by winning 48 out of 70 seats. Like the last 2 assembly elections, Congress did not win even a single seat this time. BJP’s seats increased by 40 with a strike rate of 71%. At the same time, AAP lost 40 seats. AAP’s strike rate was 31%. Read full news…
