With protests stalling the Municipal Council of Delhi's (MCD) mayor elections twice, AAP's mayor candidate Shelly Oberoi on Thursday moved the Supreme Court. She demanded that polls to the civic body be conducted in “a time-bound manner”.
The House was adjourned indefinitely on January 24 by the LG-appointed presiding officer following a ruckus by some councillors. The councillors were sworn in amid tight security. The first meeting of the newly elected House of the MCD was also adjourned on January 6 amid a ruckus by AAP and BJP members.
In the petition to the Supreme Court, filed by Oberoi and party leader Mukesh Goyal, they also demand that the Aldermen not be allowed to vote as "the law doesn't allow that".
Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor had said the way AAP "disrupted" the MCD House proceedings as soon as it reached the stage of the mayoral election its apparent that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal does not want Delhi to get a mayor. Responding to the allegations, senior AAP leader Atishi Wednesday accused the BJP of disrupting the proceedings. The AAP MLA alleged that the BJP councillors climbed over the benches and resorted to hooliganism inside the House while falsely accusing her party of creating a ruckus. “They were carrying printed placards that said 'stop hooliganism and let the House function'. This proves that the BJP conspired and pre-planned an agenda to disrupt the House," she said.
AAP scripted history by unseating the BJP from the MCD in the polls held in December last year. While the AAP won 134 of the 250 wards, the BJP won 104 wards.
Shelly Oberoi and Ashu Thakur are the AAP's contenders for the post of mayor. The BJP has nominated Rekha Gupta. The nominees for the post of deputy mayor are Aaley Mohammad Iqbal and Jalaj Kumar for the AAP and the BJP's Kamal Bagri.
-with PTI inputs
