Last Update: February 12, 2023, 13:50 IST
The House has held three sessions since the December 4 municipal elections (PTI photo)
Ruckus and uproar over the decision to give voting rights to aldermen without electing the mayor, deputy mayor and members of the body’s standing committee led to the adjournment of three consecutive meetings of the House in the last one month.
After three failed attempts, Delhi LG VK Saxena has given his nod to convene the next session of the MCD House on February 16 for the mayoral election.
According to official sources, the AAP government had sent a proposal to hold the session of the House on February 16 and Saxena has accepted it.
Three consecutive meetings of the House were adjourned in the last one month due to uproar and uproar over the civic body’s decision to give voting rights to aldermen without electing the mayor, deputy mayor and members of the standing committee.
After the civic polls in December, the House was convened for the first time on January 6 but was adjourned following a heated exchange of words between members of the BJP and the AAP.
The second Municipal House, held on 24 January, was adjourned briefly after the swearing-in ceremony, and was subsequently adjourned until the next date by the pro tem presiding officer.
After that, last Monday the house was again adjourned for the third time, a month after the first municipal house.
The AAP alleged that the mayoral election could not be held because the BJP was “strangulating democracy and the Constitution of India”, while the saffron party accused the Aam Aadmi Party of making excuses to stall the mayoral election, calling it a deadlock. blamed for. ,
The AAP had emerged as a clear winner in the elections held in December, winning 134 wards and ending the BJP’s 15-year rule in the civic body. The BJP finished second by winning 104 wards, while the Congress won nine wards in the 250-member municipal house.
The civic body in Delhi had 272 wards in its three corporations – NDMC, SDMC, and EDMC – which existed from 2012-2022, before being re-integrated into a single MCD, which formally came into existence on May 22 last year. I came
The Municipal Council in Delhi failed to elect a mayor after an uproar over the decision to allow mayors to vote in the mayoral election on February 6, even as the AAP alleged a “well-planned conspiracy” by the BJP to stall the process. Accused of.
(With PTI inputs)
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