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In the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), 15 city councilors of AAP have resigned from the party. He has also announced to form a third front called Indraprastha Vikas Party. Mukesh Goyal will lead the new front.
Other councilors resigned include Hemchand Goyal, Himani Jain, Runakshi Sharma, Usha Sharma, Ashok Pandey, Rakhi Yadav, Sahib Kumar, Rajesh Kumar Ladi, Manisha, Suman Anil Rana, Devinder Kumar and Dinesh Bhardwaj.
Councilors wrote in a press release, ‘All of us were selected by AAP ticket in the year 2022 in Councilors MCD. However, despite winning the election in 2022, the top leadership of the party could not run the MCD properly.
‘The coordination of big leaders with councilors remained negligible, due to which the party has come into opposition. We are resigning from the primary membership of the councilor party for not fulfilling the promise made to the public.
Councilors said- could not fulfill the promises made to the public
Mukesh Goyal has spoken about the resignation of 15 councilors. However, 13 councilors are named in the press release.
Raja Iqbal Singh of BJP became Mayor on 25 April Elections were held in Delhi on 25 April last month for the post of Mayor and Deputy Mayor. AAP boycotted the election. There was a contest between the BJP and the Congress, in which BJP candidate Raja Iqbal Singh won the post of mayor with 133 votes.
Apart from this, BJP councilor Jai Bhagwan Yadav was elected deputy mayor. A total of 142 votes were cast. One vote was declared illegal. The Congress got only 8 votes. The BJP’s victory in the election was already decided as it had 117 councilors and the Congress only eight councilors.
A total of 142 councilors participated in the mayor’s election, with 133 votes to the BJP.
238 seats in MCD, 12 seats vacant Every year, Delhi holds the post of mayor and body elections every five years. In the last civic elections of 2022, AAP won 134 seats and won a majority. BJP got 104 seats and Congress got 9 seats. A total of 250 seats were voted. Before the integration of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, there was voting for 272 wards.
The number of current councilors in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi is 238. 12 out of 250 seats were vacant due to some councilors being elected to the Delhi Assembly and a Lok Sabha. Out of 250 seats, BJP has 117 councilors.
AAP had 113 councilors, but the number has come down after the resignation of the councilors. The Congress has only eight seats. In addition to 250 councilors in the MCD mayor election, 10 MPs from Delhi (seven from Lok Sabha and three from Rajya Sabha) vote, which leads to a total of 274 votes.
Many MLAs and councils left AAP this year in Delhi
- February 2: 8 MLAs join BJP Eight AAP MLAs resigned from the party on February 1, 4 days before the assembly elections. The next day everyone joined the BJP. These included Vandana Gaur, Rohit Mehraulia, Girish Soni, Madan Lal, Rajesh Rishi, BS June, Naresh Yadav and Pawan Sharma. The party did not give him a ticket in the 2025 election.
- February 15: 3 councilors of AAP joined BJP 6 days after the BJP’s victory in the assembly elections, 3 councilors of the Aam Aadmi Party joined the BJP. These included councilor Anita Basoya from Andrews Ganj, Councilor Dharamvir from RK Puram and Councilor Nikhil from Chaprana. Apart from these, 4 AAP leaders also joined BJP. Sandeep Basoya joined the BJP along with his supporters. He has been the District President of New Delhi from AAP.
Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva had joined the BJP to the councilors.
BJP government in Delhi after 26 years, AAP reduced to 22 seats The results of the Delhi Assembly Elections came on 8 February this year. In this, the BJP returned to power after 26 years by winning 48 out of 70 seats. AAP got 22 seats, while the party won 62 seats in the 2020 election.
Like the last two assembly elections, the Congress could not win a single seat this time. BJP’s 40 seats increased with a 71% strike rate. At the same time, AAP lost 40 seats. AAP’s strike rate was 31%. Read full news …
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