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Tag: South Delhi Municipal Corporation

Delhi Ruling “AAP” Announces 8 Names For SDMC Bypolls

[New Delhi]: Delhi Ruling “AAP” Announces 8 Names For SMCD Bypolls
The Political Affairs Committee of Aam Aadmi Pary today cleared eight names for MCD bypolls which are expected to be held next month, Its rivals BJP and Congress. Have not disclosed their cards yet.
Contesting in 13 wards will be AAP’s maiden outing in the municipal corporation polls after the party’s stupendous feat in the Assembly election last year when it won 67 out of 70 seats.
Names of candidates to the rest five seats will be declared in the next two days,
The move comes a day after Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan-led Swaraj Abhiyan announced its intention to enter the fray.
Candidates for ward 214 (Khichripur), ward 238 (Jhilmil), ward 67 (Wazirpur), ward 44 (Qamruddin Nagar), ward 136 (Matiala), ward 168 (Nanakpura), ward 176 (Bhati Mines) and ward 124 (Vikas Nagar) have been announced.
They are Yogesh Dedha, Ghanshyam Gaur, Sachin Singhal, Arun Singh Chauhan, Ramesh Matiala, Anil Mallik, Pawan Tanwar and Ashok Saini respectively.
Most of these wards are in South Delhi Municipal Corporation where several councillors have been elected as MLAs.
When asked, Congress said it has asked its local units to send a list of names while BJP said it will declare its list the day poll dates are announced.
The civic bodies are currently controlled by BJP. Fresh full-fledged polls to MCD are expected to take place next year.
In January, the Delhi High Court has ordered bypolls to be held at the earliest.

BJP Does a Hattrick in Delhi Mayoral Polls

[New Delhi]BJP does a hattrick in mayoral polls
After its municipal triumphs in South and East corporations, BJP today clinched the posts of Mayor and Deputy Mayor of North Delhi as well, thus ending its phenomenal run in the mayoral polls on an all-win note.
All three civic bodies have been BJP-led for past several years and the party had swept the mayoral polls last year too.
[1]In North Delhi Municipal Corporation, BJP candidate Ravinder Gupta today defeated Congress rival Harsh Sharma by a margin of 41 votes, the highest victory margin for the post, among the three elections.While Gupta polled 67 votes, Sharma could only get 26.
Out of the total of 95 votes, two were declared invalid, an NDMC official said.
[2]On April 24, BJP’s veteran leader in South RPT South Delhi Municipal Corporation Subhash Arya trounced Congress councillor and former Mayor Farhad Suri by a gap of 19 votes.
The winning margin was doubled in the Deputy Mayor polls in the SDMC, as BJP’s winning candidate Kuldeep Solanki bagged 69 votes while Congress’ Indu could get just 31, with the big margin fuelling speculation of “cross-voting”.
71-year-old Arya, currently the chairman of SDMC’s standing committee, polled 60 votes, while Suri, currently the Leader of the Opposition received 41.
Last year’s SDMC mayoral polls had seen Congress losing to BJP by a solitary margin, unlike the easy victory this time for the ruling party.
[3]BJP continued its mayoral triumph in East Delhi Municipal Corporation yesterday, with its candidate Harshdeep Malhotra defeating Congress rival Rekha Rani by a margin of 17 votes.
While Malhotra polled 40 votes, Rani could only get 23.
Out of the total of 64 votes, one was declared invalid.
And, while area MPs from BJP and Congress queued up to cast their votes in their respective corporation, all AAP MLAs chose to stay away from the polls.