The BJP nowadays determined to area Shikha Rai and Soni Pandey for the election of mayor and deputy mayor of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi in spite of now no longer having ok numbers withinside the House. Shikha Rai and Soni Pandey will record their nomination papers nowadays, consistent with a Delhi BJP statement.
Today is the remaining date for submitting nominations and vote casting could be hung on April 26. Shikha Rai is the councillor from the Greater Kailash-1 ward at the same time as Soni Pandey represents northeast Delhi`s Sonia Vihar ward withinside the civic body.
Earlier, a pinnacle chief of the Delhi BJP had claimed that it become not likely to contest the polls as there has been a “clean mandate” withinside the favour of the Aam Aadmi Party. The AAP has fielded sitting mayor Shelly Oberoi and deputy mayor Aaley Mohammad Iqbal for the polls.
The one-12 months time period of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi mayor starts offevolved in April. The put up has 5 single-12 months phrases on a rotation basis, with the primary 12 months being reserved for women, the second one for open category, the 1/3 for reserved category, and the final once more for the open category.
The BJP had contested the election for mayor of the unified MCD municipal employer of Delhi in February in spite of now no longer having the vital votes to emerge victorious. Shelly Oberoi had defeated BJP councillor Rekha Gupta withinside the February ballot via way of means of 34 votes.
Iqbal too had defeated his opponent from the BJP. The Aam Aadmi Party gained the MCD polls held in December remaining 12 months. It ended the BJP’s 15-12 months-vintage rule on the MCD. The AAP bagged 134 of the 250 wards, at the same time as the BJP were given 104.
