delhi Mayor, Deputy Mayor polls to be held on 6 February

Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, VK Saxena on Wednesday approved February 6 to hold the election of Mayor, Deputy Mayor and the sixMember Standing Committee. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy CM Manish Sisodia had proposed the election date.

Dy CM of Delhi, Manish Sisodia held a press conference after the announcement of the next date of Mayor elections in Delhi. In the press conference, Manish Sisodia said that the people of Delhi were unhappy when the Municipal Corporation of Delhi was under the BJP rule.

“Trusting Arvind Kejriwal’s guarantees, the people of Delhi voted for Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to form the government in MCD. The people of Delhi have defeated the BJP after 15 years of rule and now the BJP is conspiring to block the election of the mayor,” the Dy CM alleged.

“We expect the Bharatiya Janata Party to accept the democracy and allow the mayor’s election to be held on 6th February and allow the Aam Aadmi Party to appoint the mayor. If the mayor of the Aam Aadmi Party comes to power, all the pending works will be completed immediately,” he added. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had staged ‘padayatras’ in all 70 assembly constituencies of Delhi on Saturday to protest against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for repeatedly delaying the election of the mayor.

The party had accused the BJP of using hooliganism and conspiring to stop the election from occurring twice now. The AAP claimed that it was not only an insult to the mandate of the two crore people of Delhi but also wastes their time.