Delhi will get a new mayor in January 2023

 

Delhi: Election for the post of mayor is to be held on December 7, a month after the counting of votes.

The national capital will get its mayor on January 6, after the high-stakes municipal corporation elections in Delhi earlier this month, according to news agency PTI.

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) came into existence in April 1958 and its mayor wielded influential power and gained a great deal of prestige until 2012 when the corporation was split into three separate civic bodies, each with its own mayor. Was.

But, in 2022, the Center brought a law to integrate North Delhi Municipal Corporation (104 wards), South Delhi Municipal Corporation (104 wards) and East Delhi Municipal Corporation (64 wards) into a single entity, though it limited the total Had done it. The number of wards has come down to 250 from the earlier 272 wards.

Thus, after the election of the mayor in January, Delhi will get a mayor for the entire city after a gap of 10 years. According to a PTI report, the mayoral election is to be held a month after the counting of votes on December 7.

In the MCD elections, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) emerged as the clear winner by winning 134 wards and ending the BJP's 15-year rule in the civic body, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came second by winning 104 wards. Congress won nine seats in the 250-member municipal house, which will be held on January 6 for the first time after the 2022 civic polls.

This was the first civic body election after the redrawing of wards in the previous year, an exercise necessitated after the Center brought in a law in Parliament to merge the three local bodies.

Parliament had on April 5 passed the Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill-2022 to integrate the three civic bodies in the national capital into a new unified entity, capping the total number of wards at 250. It had received the assent of the President. 18 April.

The Unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi came into effect from May 22, with Gyanesh Bharti and Ashwani Kumar taking charge as Municipal Commissioner and Officer on Special Duty, respectively.