The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)’s candidate Shelly Oberoi was unanimously elected as mayor of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Wednesday after BJP candidate Shikha Rai withdrew her nomination.
AAP’s Aaley Mohammad Iqbal also got another term as deputy mayor after BJP candidate Soni Pal withdrew her nomination.
Shelly has become the mayor of Delhi for the second time. Oberoi was elected mayor of Delhi in January this year after much wrangling between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Aam Aadmi Party.
The elections for the Delhi Mayor and Deputy Mayor in Delhi were scheduled for today. However, the BJP candidates’ withdrawal led the AAP candidates to unanimously win the posts for the second consecutive term.
The post of mayor in the national capital sees five single-year terms on a rotational basis with the first year reserved for women, the second for the open category, the third for the reserved category and the remaining two again for the open category. Delhi gets a new mayor after the end of a financial year.
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