Delhi MCD Mayor Election: The Delhi Municipal Corporation House on Monday failed for the third time in a month to elect its mayor. There was an uproar in the House over the decision to allow the Alderman (nominated councillor) to vote in the mayoral election. The Aam Aadmi Party accused the BJP of hatching a conspiracy to stall the election process and said it would approach the Supreme Court, requesting it to conduct the election under court supervision. Will do
The House has witnessed unprecedented developments since January 6, when it was called for the first time after the municipal elections, but was adjourned following a heated exchange between BJP and AAP members. After the third meeting was also postponed by the presiding officer and BJP corporator Satya Sharma, a round of allegations and counter-allegations started between AAP and BJP.
BJP and AAP accused each other of this
You said that the mayor’s election could not be held on Monday because the BJP is strangling democracy and the Constitution of India. At the same time, BJP accused AAP that it comes up with some excuse or the other to obstruct this election. After a delay of half an hour, the house met at around 11.30 am and the presiding officer announced that aldermen would be allowed to vote in the elections for the posts of mayor, deputy mayor and six members of the municipal standing committee.
AAP councilors demonstrated
Satya Sharma referred to the 2016 judgment of the High Court in North Delhi Municipal Corporation vs. Anika Malhotra and others. AAP councilors demonstrated immediately after his announcements. Party leader in the house Mukesh Goyal stood up from his seat and said that the alderman cannot vote. At the same time, to hand over a document to Satya Sharma, he reached close to the seat of the presiding officer in the House. After the protests intensified, BJP corporators started raising slogans and asked AAP members not to obstruct the mayoral election.
Uproar over Akhilesh Tripathi and Sanjeev Jha
The presiding officer then said that AAP MLAs Akhilesh Tripathi and Sanjeev Jha should not be allowed to vote as there are allegations of corruption against them. AAP councilors reacted sharply to this. BJP councilors demanded the removal of Akhilesh Tripathi and Sanjeev Jha from the house. Both of them are among the 14 AAP MLAs who were nominated by the Delhi Assembly Speaker to the MCD in December last year. After the noise increased, the presiding officer announced that the house is adjourned till the next date.
MLA sitting on his seat
AAP leaders and councilors continued to sit in their respective seats, while BJP members walked out of the House. Later, while addressing a press conference at Civic Centre, MCD headquarters, AAP’s Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh, party’s MLA Atishi and AAP’s MCD in-charge Durgesh Pathak criticized the BJP for holding the election of Mayor of Delhi in a time-bound manner. And have decided to approach the Supreme Court to get it under the supervision of the court.
Sanjay Singh made this claim
Sanjay Singh claimed, “Today through the media people saw what was happening…It is clear that the presiding officer is working on the instructions of the BJP and a conspiracy has been hatched to not let the mayor’s election take place.” .” He said, “We will now go to the Supreme Court and raise other issues, including the issue of allowing the Alderman to be voted.” AAP’s leader in the House Mukesh Goyal alleged that the presiding officer was trying to violate the Constitution and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi Act.
MCD proceedings were adjourned on January 24 as well
It is noteworthy that the second meeting of the House was adjourned on January 24 after the swearing in of the newly elected members. After the House meeting was once again adjourned on Monday, BJP leaders blamed AAP for the impasse. BJP MP Harsh Vardhan, who came to the house on Monday, said that a court has given the right to vote to the alderman and the presiding officer is doing everything according to the law.
Manish Sisodia also attacked BJP
On the other hand, Atishi claimed that the BJP planned to disrupt the proceedings, so that the proceedings of the House could be adjourned. Before the House met, Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia alleged that the BJP has instructed its councilors to create ruckus like last time to disrupt the mayoral election.
Virendra Sachdeva hit back
To this, BJP’s Delhi unit working president Virendra Sachdeva retorted that it was the Aam Aadmi Party which had asked its councilors to do so and if the house is adjourned, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal would be responsible for it. Will be Meanwhile, Congress’s Delhi unit chief Anil Kumar alleged that AAP has betrayed the people of the national capital who gave it a clear majority in the MCD polls.
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