Delhi Mayor Polls: BJP Regains Management Of MCD As Raja Iqbal Elected New Mayor, Jai Bhagwan Dy Mayor | India Information
MCD Mayor Election 2025: The Bharatiya Janata Occasion has regained energy within the Municipal Company of Delhi (MCD) after a niche of two years, with the elections for the Mayor and Deputy Mayor concluding on Friday. BJP’s Raja Iqbal obtained 148 votes to grow to be Mayor in opposition to Congress’ Mandeep Singh who obtained 133 votes, and eight votes have been declared invalid. Congress candidate for Deputy Mayor, Ariba Khan, withdrew her title from the race paving manner for BJP’s Jai Bhagwan’s election as Deputy Mayor of Delhi unopposed.
Thanking the social gathering management, Raja Iqbal stated that his principal purpose is to wash Delhi, take away the rubbish mountains, resolve the problem of waterlogging, and supply all fundamental and important services to the individuals of Delhi. With the AAP boycotting the election, the BJP comfortably swept the civic posts, solidifying its management over Delhi via the Centre, the nominated MLAs within the Meeting and now the MCD. Nevertheless, the AAP councillors voted for the Congress candidate.
The present energy of the MCD is 238, as 12 seats lie vacant as a consequence of some councillors getting elected to the Delhi Meeting and one to Lok Sabha. Out of 250 seats, BJP has 117 councillors, up from 104 in 2022, whereas AAP’s tally has dropped to 113 from its earlier 134. Congress has simply eight seats. The electoral school for the mayoral election included 238 councillors, 10 MPs (seven from the Lok Sabha and three from the Rajya Sabha) and 14 MLAs — Delhi Meeting Speaker Vijender Gupta has nominated 11 BJP and three AAP MLAs because the electors.
The earlier mayoral election, held on November 14, 2024, had seen AAP’s Mahesh Kumar Khinchi win by a razor-thin margin of simply three votes. Nevertheless, subsequent defections and political shifts have considerably altered the MCD’s energy steadiness.
