The Hindu 16.04.2013
South Delhi Corporation to hold Mayoral polls today
Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Standing Committee members to be elected.
With the South Delhi Municipal Corporation due to elect
its Mayor and Deputy Mayor on Tuesday, politicking for these posts
reached a feverish pitch on Monday as the SDMC is the only corporation
where a fractured verdict was delivered in the last civic body
elections.
Three Standing Committee members will also
be elected here at a meeting which will be held at the Dr. S.P.
Mukherjee Civic Centre after the election of Mayor and Deputy Mayor.
In
SDMC, the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party are also fighting
for the post of Chairman of the Central Zone of South Delhi Municipal
Corporation. The incumbent and Congress candidate Virender Kasana and
Nationalist Congress Party candidate Chandra Prakash are in the fray.
There was hectic lobbying for the seats.
The other
two Delhi Municipal Corporations have already elected their Mayor and
Deputy Mayor. In North DMC, BJP councillor Azad Singh, who was the
Deputy Mayor in the last corporation, was elected the Mayor while
Poornima Vidyarthi became his deputy.
In East Delhi
Municipal Corporation (EDMC), Ram Narayan Dubey of the BJP has been
elected the new Mayor. He defeated Congress candidate Rajeev Kumar by a
margin of 22 votes. Mahendra Ahuja was elected the Deputy Mayor. Sanjay
Surjan and Sanjay Kaushik of the BJP and Varyam Kaur of the Congress
were elected members of the Standing Committee.
In
these corporations too, a lot of political activity was witnessed during
the day. Here the elections for two wards are also scheduled due to the
death of the incumbents. BJP candidate Asha Tayal on Monday filed the
nomination paper for the Yamuna Vihar ward under the EDMC in the
presence of Delhi BJP president Vijay Goel.
Two
Congress candidates also filed their nomination papers on Monday.
Sushila Agarwal and Ramesh Devi filed their nomination from Ward No. 256
at Yamuna Vihar in EDMC and Ward No. 43 at Nangloi East in North DMC
respectively.
