Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) mayoral candidate Rekha Gupta has blamed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), four days after the uproar in the first meeting of the elected house of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) at the civic body headquarters. majority, for “deliberately disrupting” the swearing-in ceremony and indulging in “negative politics”, while the latter attacked the saffron party for being “insecure” and “illegally taking charge of the proceedings”.
Following the violence, after which the meeting was adjourned on 6 January, Lieutenant-Governor (LG) Vinay Kumar Saxena is yet to approve another date to elect the mayor of Delhi, the first single-member to be elected after 10 years. is the mayor. The civic body was reunified on May 22, 2022. Earlier, three corporations, each headed by a mayor, handled civic issues.
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According to officials, it is for the first time in the civic body’s history that the House witnessed violence that disrupted proceedings and ensured the mayor, who heads the House, is still not elected. The infrastructure was badly damaged and will take time to repair. Due to this, the development works are being affected, because the budget for the development works cannot be passed until the House is ready.
The 48-year-old Gupta, who is also the BJP’s national vice-president of the Mahila Morcha, said the AAP had planned it beforehand as they did not want the House to run as they were unsure whether their mayoral candidate, being a new face, would win. Being, would be able to win the election.
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“The AAP councilors entered the hall where the swearing-in ceremony of the alderman was to take place at 11.45 am, while the start time for the proceedings was 11 am. He made the House wait for 45 minutes as he was planning the whole scheme. As soon as the ceremony started, you councilors jumped on the stage and started throwing other equipment including mics, tables and chairs from the stage. Gupta, a three-time corporator from North Delhi’s Shalimar Bagh, said many women corporators got scared and found a corner to save themselves from the ongoing hooliganism.
“AAP expressed displeasure over the presiding officer allowing the aldermen (nominated members) to take oath first and started vandalizing the dais,” he said. This was despite the fact that the Delhi Municipal Corporation (DMC) Act, nowhere mentions any specific mandate for councilors and aldermen to take oath. “Everything was going on by the DMC Act, but the AAP, which did not come out of its agitation mode, whether in power or in the opposition, continued with its violent tactics as it feared that its mayoral candidate would become a new is a candidate. face and cannot win elections,” said Gupta.
AAP’s mayoral candidate Shaili Oberoi (39), a former Delhi University (DU) visiting faculty who won her first election as corporator from BJP bastion East Patel Nagar, refused to speak while her office Said, “She is not talking to the public. Currently media. ,
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However, reacting to the allegations, AAP MLA and spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj said that it was sad that the BJP was indulging in such “dishonest and cheap politics”, knowing that the AAP had a majority and the mayor would do so. , to run things on their own will definitely be from the party that has the numbers. “Our candidate holds a PhD in commerce, she is well-educated, has been associated with the party for eight-nine years and has been a grassroots worker. He won the election from a BJP stronghold seat. It is the BJP, which is insecure and hence indulging in such unscrupulous politics to somehow turn things in its favor. But we will not let that happen,” Bhardwaj said.
Oberoi is a member of the Indian Commerce Association (ICA) and holds a Ph.D. from the School of Management Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). It has won many awards in various conferences. She joined AAP in 2013 and was appointed vice-president of the Delhi unit of the party’s women’s wing two years ago.
He said that BJP corporators thrashed AAP corporator Praveen Kumar. They were abused, punched and kicked for objecting to the swearing in of aldermen instead of elected councillors. Since the time the civic body came into existence, it has been a precedent that the elected members are sworn in first.
He said that from appointing the presiding officer, who according to the rules should be the senior-most member, to nominating random BJP workers, every other rule in the book was being flouted by the Lt Governor and BJP councilors to run the House. Could their way.
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“The DMC Act says that the alderman should be a person who is an expert in a particular field or has knowledge of a subject, but those appointed by the LG are district level leaders of the BJP. Everyone in the city can see how they are misusing their power. But, we are not Congress, we are AAP and will work in our own way.
Under the existing provisions of the Delhi Municipal Corporation (DMC) Act, the first woman mayor of the corporation will have a short term of only three months and fresh elections will be required for the post in April 2023. The post of mayor sees five single-year terms on a rotation basis, with the first year reserved for women, the second for the open category, the third for the reserved category and the remaining two also in the open category.
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