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‘What was the tearing hurry…’ – India TV

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Image Source : ANI Supreme Court of India The Supreme Court on Friday (October 4) sought a response from the office of Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena on a plea filed by Mayor and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Shelly Oberoi over election of 6th member of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Standing Committee. A bench of Justices PS Narasimha and R Mahadevan questioned LG’s office to exercise exercise power to hold the election of MCD Standing Committee and issued notice to his office and posted the matter for hearing after two weeks. What did the Supreme Court say? During the hearing, the apex court expressed reservations on the manner in which the LG issued directions for holding the elections for the 6th member of the standing committee of MCD, saying, “What was the tearing hurry (in holding election in the absence of Mayor)”. Questioning the decision of LG to exercise his powers under Section 487 of the Delhi Municipal Act, the bench asked, “Where do you get the power to interdict it (election) …

MCD election controversy reaches Supreme Court as BJP files petition

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Image Source : PTI BJP candidate Sunder Singh Tanwar with other party councillors shows a victory sign after the MCDs Standing Committee member election, at MCD House in New Delhi. The controversy surrounding the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) standing committee elections has reached the Supreme Court, where BJP councillor Raja Iqbal Singh filed a plea for an urgent hearing. Singh alleged that Chief Minister Shelley Oberoi had flouted norms by postponing the polls despite the Governor-General’s directives, which he said were in contempt of the August 5 Supreme Court order. The BJP councillors filed a petition in the Supreme Court Leader of Opposition in MCD Raja Iqbal Singh approached the Supreme Court accusing Mayor Shelley Oberoi of flouting law and custom by postponing standing committee elections till October 5. Singh argued that this delay despite Lt Governor’s directive… Preliminary direction of the Supreme Court. BJP won the MCD committee amid AAP boycott   The BJP on Friday won the last vacant seat in the 18-member Delhi Municipal Corporation standing committee unopposed after the Aam …

AAP to stay away from election process for vacant MCD standing committee seat | Latest News India

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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia on Friday called municipal commissioner Ashwani Kumar’s election meeting notice for the vacant Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) standing committee seat “illegal” and said they would stay away from the process. He argued a bureaucrat cannot preside over the meeting of the elected corporation. AAP leader Manish Sisodia. (X) Sisodia likened Kumar to Anil Masih, the returning officer who was caught on camera defacing ballots cast in Chandigarh mayoral polls on January 30 that helped the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) win the election. The Supreme Court in February overturned the mayoral polls results and declared the AAP candidate the winner Delhi BJP chief Virender Sachdeva said that the AAP has a majority in the MCD but it was running away from the election to the vacant seat. He added that AAP was responsible for the “murder of democracy” as key panels had not been formed over 21 months after the MCD polls. “AAP, Arvind Kejriwal, and Manish Sisodia are murdering the democracy in MCD. You won the election…you …