Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has approved the proposal of convening the adjourned first meeting of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi on February 22 for election of Mayor, Deputy Mayor and six members of the standing committee, the LG said in a statement.
The high-octane political drama unfolded inside the Delhi Civic Centre on Monday as the House met for a third time this month to elect the mayor, only to be deferred till the next date due to ruckus over the nominated members being permitted to vote.
Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, VK Saxena on Wednesday approved February 6 to hold the election of Mayor, Deputy Mayor and the six-Member Standing Committee. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy CM Manish Sisodia had proposed the election date.
An appeal was made on behalf of the Aam Aadmi Party that the elections of Mayor, Deputy Mayor and Standing Committee should be held in Delhi as soon as possible and it should also be ordered that aldermen who are nominated councillors cannot vote. Not only in the constitution but also in the
The house was adjourned after Presiding officer Satya Sharma said the proceedings cannot be conducted amid sloganeering from both AAP and BJP councillors.
With only three days left in the high-stake Chandigarh mayoral elections, poaching fear has gripped the major parties and has forced parties to shift their councillors to other states as a defensive measure.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have 14 councillors each, while Congress has six councillors, making the situation surrounding Chandigarh's mayoral election interesting.
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Thursday sent a proposal to Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena urging him to conduct mayoral polls for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi before January 30.
A day after chaos and a clash between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Aam Aadmi Party councillors at the Civic Center marred the mayoral elections for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, the saffron on Saturday wrote to Delhi's Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena demanding suspension of a