Municipal Corporation of Delhi in AAP pocket

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: Finally, what AAP thought occurred, not within the actual measure, however in its historic proportion. The Arvind Kejriwal-led get together ended the BJP’s 15-year rule over the MCD, bagging 134 of the 250 seats, forcing the BJP to settle at 104 and Congress at a distant 9 seats.

For AAP, it’s a want fulfilled: it now guidelines Delhi and the civic physique whose unification from three separate our bodies a number of months again was considered a pro-BJP transfer.On Wednesday, the BJP may draw solace from a fragile truth: it has fared higher than what was projected by exit polls. 

The outcomes humiliated the Congress because it received solely 9 seats and, worse, 188 of its 247 candidates misplaced their deposits. An ingredient of historical past joined AAP’s win. It is for the primary time that the AAP has managed to wrest energy from the BJP in any of the battles of the poll for the reason that get together’s delivery a decade in the past.

AAP has received two different elections the Delhi Assembly (2015 & 2019) and Punjab (2022). In all these polls, AAP swept the Congress off, whereas it confronted defeat in BJP-ruled states like Uttarakhand, Goa and Uttar Pradesh.

In Delhi, AAP singularly focused the town’s ever-rising three landfill websites, promising to take away the muck and squalor from Delhi’s midst. The BJP received again at AAP by selectively leaking video clips on the so-called corruption circumstances, together with the Delhi excise rip-off.

In the earlier elections, the BJP had trounced each the AAP and the Congress by profitable 181 of 272 wards of the three municipal companies. Kejriwal termed the “decisive victory” to be an affirmation for his get together’s sincere politics. “People of Delhi have now entrusted their son to clean Delhi and rid MCD of corruption. I won’t let them down,” he mentioned on the AAP headquarters.

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Delhi BJP chief Adesh Gupta mentioned the individuals have given them nearly 40% vote share together with 104 wards and accountability as a robust opposition. As for the dispirited Congress, it claimed that the individuals have rejected the BJP.

Mayor watch

Tenure of MCD mayor is 1 12 months

Rules mandate that the primary mayor is a lady whereas the third mayor must be from the reserved class

AAP could discipline SC lady councillor for mayor

If she wins, she’ll have tenure of about 4 months as new mayor is sworn in each April

NEW DELHI: Finally, what AAP thought occurred, not within the actual measure, however in its historic proportion. The Arvind Kejriwal-led get together ended the BJP’s 15-year rule over the MCD, bagging 134 of the 250 seats, forcing the BJP to settle at 104 and Congress at a distant 9 seats.

For AAP, it’s a want fulfilled: it now guidelines Delhi and the civic physique whose unification from three separate our bodies a number of months again was considered a pro-BJP transfer.On Wednesday, the BJP may draw solace from a fragile truth: it has fared higher than what was projected by exit polls. 

The outcomes humiliated the Congress because it received solely 9 seats and, worse, 188 of its 247 candidates misplaced their deposits. An ingredient of historical past joined AAP’s win. It is for the primary time that the AAP has managed to wrest energy from the BJP in any of the battles of the poll for the reason that get together’s delivery a decade in the past.

AAP has received two different elections the Delhi Assembly (2015 & 2019) and Punjab (2022). In all these polls, AAP swept the Congress off, whereas it confronted defeat in BJP-ruled states like Uttarakhand, Goa and Uttar Pradesh.

In Delhi, AAP singularly focused the town’s ever-rising three landfill websites, promising to take away the muck and squalor from Delhi’s midst. The BJP received again at AAP by selectively leaking video clips on the so-called corruption circumstances, together with the Delhi excise rip-off.

In the earlier elections, the BJP had trounced each the AAP and the Congress by profitable 181 of 272 wards of the three municipal companies. Kejriwal termed the “decisive victory” to be an affirmation for his get together’s sincere politics. “People of Delhi have now entrusted their son to clean Delhi and rid MCD of corruption. I won’t let them down,” he mentioned on the AAP headquarters.

ALSO READ | Aam Aadmi Party sweeps MCD elections, ends BJP’s rule in Delhi civic physique

Delhi BJP chief Adesh Gupta mentioned the individuals have given them nearly 40% vote share together with 104 wards and accountability as a robust opposition. As for the dispirited Congress, it claimed that the individuals have rejected the BJP.

Mayor watch

Tenure of MCD mayor is 1 12 months

Rules mandate that the primary mayor is a lady whereas the third mayor must be from the reserved class

AAP could discipline SC lady councillor for mayor

If she wins, she’ll have tenure of about 4 months as new mayor is sworn in each April