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Raja Iqbal Singh is Delhi’s new mayor, says his priority is to clean up city in 3 months | Latest News India

Raja Iqbal Singh is Delhi’s new mayor, says his priority is to clean up city in 3 months | Latest News India

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NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday reclaimed power in the capital’s municipal corporation, with the party’s Raja Iqbal Singh, 54, elected as Delhi’s next mayor. Raja Iqbal Singh was elected Delhi mayor with 133 votes in his favour against 8 votes secured by the Congress candidate. The AAP, which has 119 councillors, abstained from the election. (PTI) Singh’s election, and the BJP’s return to power after losing the civic body elections in November 2022, was a formality since the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had announced that it would boycott the mayoral election. The AAP lost its majority in the MCD following a series of defections to the BJP after its victory in the Delhi Assembly elections in February. Raja Iqbal Singh secured 133 votes against the Congress candidate, Mandeep Singh, the Nangloi councillor, who got 8 votes, the Congress’s total strength in the elected body. Raja Iqbal Singh, a two-term councillor from Mukherjee Nagar ward (previously GTB Nagar), had previously served as the mayor of the erstwhile North MCD in 2021-22 before …

With Delhi polls round the corner, residents of Bhalswa fear another cycle of neglect | Latest News India

With Delhi polls round the corner, residents of Bhalswa fear another cycle of neglect | Latest News India

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New Delhi, The promises made during the December 2022 MCD elections had rekindled hopes of a better life among the residents of Bhalswa village located on the slopes of a massive mountain of waste in North West district. With Delhi polls round the corner, residents of Bhalswa fear another cycle of neglect Two years have passed since then, but the residents of Bhalswa continue to grapple with worsening living conditions amid rising health concerns. The three landfill sites in the capital were turned into a key poll issue by both the Aam Aadmi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the elections to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi . But those in Bhalswa rue that they didn’t witness any significant change post the elections as all the promises fell flat. Highlighting the neglect of the area, Ankit Kumar , who recently recovered from tuberculosis, said, “We have been facing this problem for years. Nobody is safe here, not even the animals. The cows have nothing but plastics in their stomachs.” Pointing to the environmental …

Check timing, list of key candidates – India TV

Check timing, list of key candidates – India TV

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Image Source : FILE IMAGE Delhi Mayoral Election on Nov 14 In a significant development, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Monday (November 4) cleared the air over the final conduction of the mayor elections that have been stalled for a long time. In a statement released, the civic body announced that the polls for the same will be held on November 14 since the legal and administrative lacunae have been sorted out. What led to the delay in the polls It is pertinent to note that the elections for the mayoral position have faced an unexpected snag due to administrative and legal issues. The elections continued to be extended for a long time due to the inability to appoint the presiding officer, which could have only been done with the necessary consultation of the Chief Minister. However, during that time, as the then-CM Arvind Kejriwal was in judicial custody, the Lieutenant Governor declined to move forward with the election process. The delay had led to repeated protests and disruptions in the MCD House by …

Significance of the MCD results — in three charts | Latest News India

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The Aam Admi Party (AAP) has secured a simple majority in the 2022 Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections, winning 134 wards in the 250-ward corporation. By doing so, it has wrested the (erstwhile) three MCDs from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which won 181 out of the 272 wards in the MCD polls held in 2017. What explains this change of guard in the new-unified MCD? To be sure, the AAP’s performance is below par compared to what most exit polls predicted. Here are three charts that explain the election results in detail. Dalit voters have ensured AAP’s victory in MCD This is perhaps the most important factor behind the AAP’s victory in these elections. Out of the 250 wards, 42 were reserved for Scheduled Caste (SC) candidates, 21 out of which were reserved for SC women. AAP has won an overwhelming 36 out of these 42 wards while the BJP has managed to win just six . In the remaining 208 wards, AAP and BJP have won 98 wards each. This clearly shows …

AAP’s Harbhajan Singh On Delhi Civic Poll Victory: Very Big Win

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Harbhajan Singh said the AAP would accept the Gujarat results as well. New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party MP Harbhajan Singh on Wednesday rated his party’s victory in the high-stakes elections to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) as “very big”. “It’s a very big win. I congratulate [Arvind] Kejriwal sahab, Bhagwant Mann sahab and all workers of the Aam Aadmi Party. It was a very difficult job. But this is how people do it,” Mr Singh told reporters outside parliament. “When a player goes to the field, he goes to give his best. Whatever result the people give, we will accept it,” the cricketer-turned-politician said. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday won 134 seats, easily crossing the 126-majority mark, in MCD polls. The civic body, among the world’s biggest, has 250 seats. The BJP won 104 seats and the Congress managed to get just nine wards of the MCD. It was a far closer contest than the exit polls had predicted, with the BJP putting up a spirited fight. Most exit polls and Arvind …

Arvind Kejriwal says “Need Centre’s cooperation, PM Narendra Modi’s blessings” after AAP unseats BJP in Delhi civic polls

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Arvind Kejriwal said the AAP wanted to work with other parties to clean up Delhi. New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal said he needed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s blessing and the Centre’s cooperation after his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won the Delhi civic body election today, ending the BJP’s 15-year run. “I love you too,” the Delhi Chief Minister said, thanking voters for the huge win in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) election as he addressed AAP workers. AAP’s victory gives it a “double engine” government for the first time in the capital, where it has been in power since 2015. The party has accused the BJP of obstructing it at every turn, using its government at the Centre, the Lieutenant Governor, and the civic body. “We need the central government’s help. We need the PM and Centre’s aashirvad (blessing),” Mr Kejriwal said. The big message from these polls was that people want constructive politics, not negativity, he said. “I appeal to all parties and candidates – we have indulged in politics till this point. Now …