Voting for the first elections of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), after the delimitation exercise, began on Sunday morning amid tight security in a total of 250 wards.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday promised to regularise weekly markets of eight lakh street vendors of the national capital if BJP wins the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections again.
The high-stakes Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections will take place on Sunday and the counting of votes will be held on December 7. The campaigning for the same ended on Friday.
The BJP, which has governed the civic body in Delhi since 2007, is looking to maintain its winning streak while the Aam Aadmi Party, which has a majority in the Assembly, is looking to make inroads in the first municipal election in the capital after the delimitation of wards.
The elections to the 250-ward Municipal Corporation of Delhi are seeing high-pitched contests between the BJP, which currently holds the reins of the civic bodies in the national capital, and the AAP, besides the Congress.
The Delhi government schools will be closed on Saturday in view of preparations for the December 4 MCD elections, according to an official notification on Friday.
Speaking on the occasion, Kejriwal said, "Delhi's Lieutenant Governor has stopped Yoga Pathshala, but I am continuing it and today I am giving Samman Rashi to the Yoga teacher".
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea seeking to stay the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections, scheduled to be held on December 4.
The ban will be imposed from 5.30 PM on Friday, that is, the time and day the civic polls campaign ends till December 4, which is the day when voting will take place. Following this, the ban will be imposed again on December 7, the day the votes are to be counted.