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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 …

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 …