Delhi MCD: Election for Mayor, Deputy Mayor to be held on January 6, check details

Delhi MCD: The election to pick the new mayor and deputy major of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) will be held on January 6. The last date to file nominations for the same is December 27. The high-stakes municipal polls' result was declared on December 7.

This will be the first municipal House consisting of 250 councillors who have been just elected after the high-stakes civic polls held on December 4. The House will be convened at the Civic Centre, the headquarters of the MCD on Minto Road.

"The elections to the coveted posts of mayor, deputy mayor of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and six members of the standing committee from the House, will be held on Friday, January 6, 2023 at 11:00AM during the first meeting of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi," the MCD said in a statement.

Delhi Lt Governor V K Saxena recently had approved a proposal to convene the first meeting of the corporation on January 6, 2023.

Nomination details

• The nominations can be filed in the office of the Municipal Secretary on any working day between 11 am and 5 pm.
• Election for the six members of the standing committee will also be held in the first meeting of the House.
• The post of mayor of the MCD is reserved for a female member in the first year.
• The post of mayor sees five single-year terms on a rotation basis, with the first year being reserved for women, the second for open category, third for reserved category, and the remaining two also being in the open category.

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Delhi MCD polls 2022

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won the MCD polls by bagging 134 seats, ending the 15-year rule of the BJP in the MCD, and reducing the Congress to just nine seats in a House of 250 members.

The post of mayor is considered prestigious and a Delhi mayor wielded a lot of power until the erstwhile unified MCD, set up in 1958, was trifurcated into North Delhi, South Delhi and East Delhi municipal corporations in 2012 with a mayor each for three civic bodies. The civic bodies were reunified in May 2022.

Former mayor of North Delhi Jai Prakash, who served in the post from 2020-2021, earlier said, according to the old DMC Act, which governs the MCD, besides elected councillors, some nominated members also are eligible to vote in a mayoral poll.

(With inputs from PTI)