MCD election controversy reaches Supreme Court as BJP files petition
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 …