The AAM AADMI party has decided to abstain from the ruling, saying that the BJP should “rule Delhi without any excuses”.
The BJP also announced that Jai Bhagwan Yadav will compete for the position of deputy mayor.
Meanwhile, Saurabh Bharadwaj, the Delhi convener of the AAM AADMI party, told reporters on Monday: “We don’t think we will send candidates for the AAM AADMI party in the mayoral election this time.”
He hit the BJP, he said the ruling party should “election its own mayor, the BJP should set up its own standing committee and rule Delhi without any excuses”.
“Whether we call it a 4-engine government or a 3-engine, sometimes the fourth engine is LG (VK Saxena), which sometimes works, and not doing that today, he keeps silent,” Bharadwaj said. Raja Iqbal Singh, currently the leader of the MCD opposition, served as former mayor of the North MCD, former chairman of the Frontline District Ward Committee, and a former member of the former Mukherjee Nagar Ward 13. The Delhi MCD poll is scheduled to be held on April 25, named as the candidate.
Currently, AAP controls the mayoral position as Mayor Mahesh Kumar Khinchi won the election with only three votes in November 2024.
Three civic agencies, East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC), North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) and South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC), were reunited as a single entity, a single entity, a Delhi Municipal Corporation on May 22, 2022.
In the 260-seat MCD, AAP currently leads the company with the Congressional Alliance. AAP has 114 seats, while Congress has 8 seats, with a total of 122. On the vacant seats, the league’s majority score is 119. BJP is the largest political party in the MCD, with 116 seats. In the MCD, 10 seats were nominated, while the remaining 250 were elected by the ward.
