AAP’s Shelly Oberoi defeats BJP’s Rekha Gupta to become Delhi mayor
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Expansion
Finally, after the intervention of the Supreme Court, the United Municipal Corporation of Delhi got its first mayor. In the elections held on Wednesday, Aam Aadmi Party candidate Shaili Oberoi got 150 votes, while BJP’s defeated candidate Rekha Gupta got 116 votes. But this war between the Aam Aadmi Party and the BJP has been postponed only for a maximum of two months. According to the rules of the Municipal Corporation, re-election will have to be held in the month of April for the post of the next mayor and due to this, once again there can be a war between the two major parties.
Delhi may have got a new mayor, but he won’t have much to do. The tenure of the new mayor Shelly Oberoi will be maximum of two months. The budget of the municipal corporation has already been fixed. The corporation has an estimated budget of about 17 thousand, which has already been decided. Keeping in mind the G-20 event, if the Central-Delhi government gives a new budget to the corporation, then the corporation can definitely take initiative to determine it.
According to the rules of the corporation, the second mayor is elected from the general category. In this way, as the next mayor, along with a woman or a person belonging to the scheduled caste, any person can get the responsibility of the post of mayor. For this election to be held only after two months, both the parties have already started preparations at their respective level.
what can you do
With the command of the Municipal Corporation coming into the hands of the Aam Aadmi Party, almost the entire administration of Delhi has now come to it. Now Arvind Kejriwal government can strengthen its image among the people of Delhi by implementing its schemes in a better way. Delhi’s Education Minister Manish Sisodia has been repeatedly talking about taking Delhi’s primary education system in his own hands, so that children can be given a better education system. Now by making this successful effort, they can be successful in giving more ground support to their popular schemes among the voters.
Political stakes will also be screwed
Before the municipal elections, the Aam Aadmi Party has been alleging massive corruption in the corporation during the 15 years of BJP rule. Now after the governance of the corporation comes into her hands, she can try to put the BJP on the floor by discussing those schemes on the floor of the house.
However, Jagdish Mamgain, an expert on municipal matters, told Amar Ujala that the governance of the corporation is mainly dominated by the corporation commissioner and other administrative officers. Councilors are prominent in getting things done in their areas, but officers dominate policy decisions. Therefore, she cannot blame the BJP for any work done in the past. The Aam Aadmi Party will have the option of putting the Commissioner in the dock by discussing his work in the Corporation House. But since she has to run the house for the next five years, she will avoid creating hurdles in the functioning of the corporation by angering senior officials. So he will not have much option to do.
not a major burglary
There was talk that the BJP was trying to get its mayor elected by breaking into the councilors of the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress, but the election result shows that its attempt has not been successful. However, it has given a warning to other parties by getting one Aam Aadmi Party and one Congress corporator voted in their favor.