Delhi MCD Polls: AAP moves SC demanding election be conducted in time-bound manner

Delhi MCD Polls: AAP moves SC demanding election be conducted in time-bound manner


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The
AAP
had
accused
the
BJP
of
pre-planning
the
ruckus
in
the
House
and
claimed
that
the
BJP
councillors
gheraoed
the
well.


New
Delhi,
Jan
26:

Aam
Aadmi
Party’s
mayoral
candidate
Shelly
Oberoi
moved
the
Supreme
Court
on
Thursday
demanding
the
mayoral
election
be
conducted
in
a
time-bound
manner,
party
officials
said.

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The
Delhi
mayor
election
was
stalled
on
Tuesday
for
the
second
time
this
month
as
the
House
was
adjourned
indefinitely
by
the
LG-appointed
presiding
officer
following
a
ruckus
by
some
councillors.

Accusing
the
BJP
of
hooliganism
and
halting
Municipal
Corporation
of
Delhi
(MCD)
House
proceedings,
AAP
National
spokesperson
Saurabh
Bharadwaj
said
that
the
Leader
of
the
House
Mukesh
Goel
and
mayor
candidate
Shelly
Oberoi
approached
the
top
court
to
allow
the
mayoral
elections
be
conducted
in
a
time-bound
manner.

The
case
is
likely
to
be
taken
up
on
Friday,
AAP
leaders
said.

Bharadwaj
said
that
the
party
has
also
sought
prohibition
on
voting
by
aldermen
as
per
law.

“We
have
placed
two
major
demands
in
the
Supreme
Court,
the
first
is
to
elect
the
mayor
in
a
time-bound
manner
and
form
the
government
in
the
MCD.
Second,
as
aldermen
do
not
have
the
right
to
vote
under
Article
243R
of
the
Constitution
and
Section
3
of
the
DMC
Act,
they
should
be
prohibited
from
casting
votes,”
he
said.

“They
have
no
moral
right
to
capture
and
illegally
control
the
MCD
for
so
long.
The
MCD
was
put
under
the
central
government
on
the
pretext
of
unification
and
delimitation
works.
People
of
Delhi
gave
the
AAP
the
mandate
in
the
MCD
and
despite
that,
the
BJP
resorted
to
dirty
politics.
They
(BJP)
have
been
creating
ruckus
and
not
allowing
the
mayoral
elections
to
be
conducted
in
the
House,”
he
alleged.

Lashing
out
at
the
AAP
for
approaching
court,
BJP
state
working
president
Virendra
Sachdeva
alleged
that
Chief
Minister
Arvind
Kejriwal
and
the
AAP
have
been
misleading
the
public
and
that
they
have
no
faith
in
the
Constitution.

“Whenever
they
have
to
divert
people’s
attention
from
their
mistakes,
they
move
the
court.
Later
when
the
court
decision
doesn’t
favour
them,
they
refuse
to
accept
it.
The
AAP
should
also
tell
the
court
how
it
resorted
to
hooliganism
in
the
House,
who
threw
the
mic
and
which
party’s
councillors
climbed
the
chair
of
the
presiding
officer,”
Sachdeva
said.

He
further
claimed
that
there
are
photographs
and
videos
in
the
House
which
“prove”
that
the
AAP
councilors
“deliberately
obstructed”
the
mayoral
election.

Earlier,
the
AAP
had
accused
the
BJP
of
pre-planning
the
ruckus
in
the
House
and
claimed
that
the
BJP
councillors
gheraoed
the
well.

The
first
meeting
of
the
newly
elected
House
of
the
MCD
was
also
adjourned
on
January
6
amid
a
ruckus
by
AAP
and
BJP
members.

The
AAP
won
134
of
the
250
wards
in
the
MCD
polls
held
in
December
last
year.
The
BJP
managed
to
win
104
wards.



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