NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) candidate Shelly Oberoi was elected as the new Mayor of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). Shelly Oberoi came on top in the mayoral election held on Wednesday, February 22.
AAP candidate defeated the Bharatiya Janta Party’s (BJP) candidate Rekha Gupta by securing 150 votes as opposed to 116 votes of the rival BJP candidate. While addressing the MCD House for the first time, Oberoi thanked Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodiya and Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena and said she will abide by the rules of the DMC (Delhi Municipal Corporation) Act during her tenure as mayor. She said, “We will all work together to fulfil the dreams of the people of Delhi.”
Apart from that, Aale Mohammad Iqbal, another AAP candidate, was elected as the Deputy Mayor by securing 147 votes out of a total of 266 votes.