The Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) secured the ultimate vacant seat on the Municipal Company of Delhi’s 18-member Standing Committee unopposed on Friday, after councillors from the ruling AAP and Congress boycotted the election. BJP candidate Sunder Singh secured 115 votes in opposition to AAP candidate Nirmala Kumari who acquired zero votes as her celebration didn’t take part within the ballot.
The standing committee is the best decision-making physique of the Municipal Company of Delhi. Now, of the 18 members of the Standing Committee, the BJP has 10 and the AAP has 8. Had the AAP participated within the polls and if its councillors had voted (no cross voting) for the celebration candidate, Nirmala Kumar would have gotten 125 votes, simply defeating the BJP candidate.
The seat grew to become vacant after BJP councillor Kamaljeet Sehrawat was elected because the Lok Sabha MP from West Delhi. This marked the primary time the election befell with out the participation of AAP and Congress councillors.
Reacting to the BJP’s victory, former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal mentioned that the saffron celebration has wrongly overpowered the Municipal Company of Delhi and stole the mandate from AAP. Addressing the Delhi Meeting, Kejriwal mentioned that in keeping with guidelines solely the mayor can convene a gathering of the MCD Home however the lieutenant governor modified it and directed an extra commissioner of the civic physique to do it. Kejriwal additionally accused the BJP of resorting to ‘hooliganism’.
On BJP’s Sunder Singh Tanwar successful sixth MCD standing committee seat, Raja Iqbal Singh, MCD LoP and BJP Councillor mentioned, ” That is the win of democracy…AAP knew they’d lose the ground check so that they left battleground. AAP is sweet at mendacity…they will go to court docket however the court docket all the time pulls them up…”
