Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Leader Mahesh Kumar Khichi has been elected as the brand new Mayor of Delhi, as the party received the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls towards the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by three votes.
AAP chief Mahesh Kumar Khichi (Image/X)
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Leader Mahesh Kumar Khichi has been elected as the brand new Mayor of Delhi, as the party received the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls towards the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by three votes.
Khichi has succeeded Shelly Oberoi, an AAP chief, who assumed the MCD workplace in 2023.
Delhi Chief Minister and AAP chief Atishi congratulated the newly elected mayor and attacked the BJP, saying, “The anti-Dalit BJP conspired to delay the mayoral elections. But once again Baba Saheb’s constitution has won. Thanks to@AamAadmiPartyDelhi got a Dalit mayor.”
दलित विरोधी भाजपा ने षड्यंत्र रचकर मेयर चुनाव में देरी करवाई। लेकिन एक बार फिर बाबा साहेब के संविधान की जीत हुई है। @AamAadmiParty की बदौलत दिल्ली को दलित मेयर मिला।
मेयर बनने पर @AAPMaheshkhichi जी को बधाई! मुझे उम्मीद है कि आपके नेतृत्व में MCD में @ArvindKejriwal जी के काम… https://t.co/rGJ08jo7vH
— Atishi (@AtishiAAP) November 14, 2024
“Congratulations to@AAPMaheshkhichiji on becoming the mayor! I hope that under your leadership the politics of@ArvindKejriwalji’s work in MCD will move forward”, she wrote in a publish on ‘X’.
Notably, Mahesh Kumar Khichi who’s the AAP councillor from Karol Bagh’s Dev Nagar ward, defeated BJP’s Kishan Lal of the Shakarpur ward by three votes. A complete of 265 votes had been polled, of which two had been declared “invalid.” Of the “valid” ones, AAP’s Khichi clinched 133 votes, solely three greater than the BJP’s Lal.
New mayor will maintain the publish solely until April subsequent yr
Pertinent to notice that the newly elected mayor Mahesh Kumar Khichi will solely maintain the publish until April subsequent yr. As per guidelines, mayoral elections are held in April yearly for a five-year time period comprising as many single-year tenures on a rotation foundation. However, this yr’s polls had been delayed on account of a unbroken standoff between the AAP and BJP.
Accordingly, Khichi’s time period is about to conclude in April, subsequent yr.
