New Delhi. The election of the 18th member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) will be held on Friday at 1 pm. An order has been issued by the MCD Commissioner regarding the elections. During the election of the 18th member of the Standing Committee, Additional Commissioner Jitendra Yadav will play the role of presiding officer instead of Mayor Shelly Oberoi. Municipal Corporation MCD Standing Committee elections have been postponed for the last one and a half years due to one reason or the other. Elections were to be held on September 26, but Mayor Shaili Oberoi had postponed it till October 5. However, Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena had ordered the MCD Commissioner to conduct the elections before 10 pm last night (Thursday) at any cost.
Let us tell you that the MCD Standing Committee is the most powerful body of the corporation. The Standing Committee itself proposes all important projects for MCD. Therefore, all parties want the Standing Committee elections to be in their favor. There are a total of 18 members in the MCD Standing Committee, out of which 17 members have been elected. Of these, 9 are from BJP and 8 from Aam Aadmi Party. The election of the last member of the MCD Standing Committee was to be held on September 26. But, just before the elections, BJP took three councilors of Aam Aadmi Party to its side and nine MCD councilors of Congress decided not to participate in the elections.
After this, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) appeared weak in terms of numbers. After this the Mayor postponed the elections till October 5. Meanwhile, following the order of the Lieutenant Governor, it was decided to hold elections on Friday (September 27). Let us tell you that there are 250 councilors in MCD, who will elect the last member of the Standing Committee. One councilor out of 250 has resigned, taking the number of MCD members to 249. Congress has kept distance from this election. Therefore, now only 240 councilors will vote. That means 121 votes became decisive to win the election of the 18th member.