Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia writes to LG seeking mayoral polls before January 30
New Delhi, January 13: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Thursday sent a proposal to Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena appealing him to conduct mayoral polls for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi before January 30.
Mentioning the long delay in the elections for the office of MCD Mayor and Deputy Mayor, the Delhi Deputy CM sent a proposal to conduct the elections on January 18, 20, 21 or 24. "A proposal has been sent to the LG to hold the mayoral elections in Delhi on 18, 20, 21 or 24 January. Requested that MCD is working without a mayor for the last 8 months. Therefore, it is not good to delay further. The MCD officials had sent the proposal of the meeting to the Delhi government on January 30," Sisodia tweeted in Hindi.
The proposal came after MCD officials sought approval from the Delhi government to hold elections on 30 January.
While Delhi prepared to elect its first and only mayor in a decade, the House of Commons had a major drama going on for over an hour. Last year, when Delhi's local government was unified a high roar was heard in the MCD Capitol as the Speaker asked Councilor Manoj Kumar to take the oath for the first time.
Aam Aadmi party, which won by his 134-seat margin in the MCD poll, fielded his two candidates, Ashu Thakur and his Shelly Oberoi. Meanwhile, Rekha Gupta, Shalimar Bagh's three-year alderman, is the BJP's mayoral candidate.
- ANI
