Election of Delhi`s Mayor, scheduled for Thursday, has been postponed because the Supreme Court will now listen the problem on Friday. The choice got here after the workplace of the Delhi Lieutenant Governor advised the Supreme Court that it’d delay the February sixteen election to a date after February 17. A bench headed with the aid of using Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, which published for February 17 a plea filed with the aid of using AAP Mayoral candidate Shelly Oberoi looking for early retaining of the Mayoral poll, discovered that nominated contributors can not vote withinside the election.
“Nominated contributors can not move for election. The constitutional provision could be very clean,” the bench discovered, vindicating the Aam Aadmi Party’s assertion. As the pinnacle courtroom docket bench published the problem for listening to on Friday, Additional Solicitor General Sanjay Jain, representing the workplace of the LG, stated the February sixteen election might be postponed to a date after February 17.
The Supreme Court had on February eight sought responses of the workplace of the LG, seasoned tem presiding officer Satya Sharma of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), and others, on Ms Oberoi’s plea. Amid a extended tussle among the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the BJP, there were 3 failed tries to go with the Mayor.
Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena had in advance prevalent an offer with the aid of using Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s birthday birthday celebration to keep the Mayor election on February sixteen.
The Mayor couldn’t be elected whilst the councillors met on January 6 and 24, and February 6, because of protests with the aid of using the BJP and AAP after 10 MCD contributors nominated with the aid of using the Lieutenant Governor have been allowed to vote.The Delhi Municipal Corporation Act additionally says nominated contributors, or aldermen, can not vote in residence meetings.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP has strongly adversarial vote casting rights for the aldermen nominated with the aid of using the Lieutenant Governor, who changed into appointed with the aid of using the Centre and faces allegations of furthering BJP’s time table with the aid of using looking to preclude the Delhi government’s work. The birthday birthday celebration alleges that those nominated contributors are willing to guide the BJP.
The AAP emerged because the clean winner withinside the MCD polls in December, triumphing 134 wards and finishing the BJP’s 15-yr rule withinside the civic frame. The BJP received 104 wards to complete second, at the same time as the Congress received 9 seats.
The submit of Delhi mayor sees 5 single-yr phrases on rotation, with the primary yr being reserved for women, the second one for the open category, the 0.33 for the reserved category, and the final once more for the open category. Delhi will hence get a lady mayor this yr.
This might be the primary time in 10 years that the metropolis can have one mayor, following the merger of 3 divisions of the municipal frame ultimate yr.
