BJP registers victory in Delhi Municipal Corporation panel election after AAP and Congress stay away
This all happened after the Aam Aadmi Party last night boycotted voting in a late-night session called by Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena, the Centre’s representative in the national capital.
On Friday afternoon, the BJP’s Sunder Singh Tanwar was nominated for the 18th and final seat of the Delhi Municipal Corporation’s standing committee, the election for which involved only councillors from his party. Tanwar got 115 votes – the number of BJP councillors in the House.
Tanwar’s win – which will almost certainly be challenged in court – means the BJP now has control of the standing committee, widely seen as the real power behind the civic body. The BJP now has 10 of its 18 members and can select the chairperson.
The AAP has 125 councillors and had the party voted today (and provided none of its votes were snatched away by the BJP) it would have won the election and gained control of the standing committee, which takes most of the civic body’s financial decisions.
The nine-member Congress did not participate in the vote.
This all happened after the Aam Aadmi Party last night boycotted voting in a late-night session called by Lt Governor VK Saxena, the Centre’s representative in the national capital.
