DELHI
Subhash Arya is 73 and is one of the senior-most councillor across the three corporations who has won five successive terms from Rajouri Garden ward.
Bhartiya Janata Party's Subhash Arya won a South Delhi Municipal Corporation's polls by a close margin. He won by 19 votes beating Congress' Farhad Suri.
BJP's Kuldeep Solanki has been chosen as deputy mayor. Subhash Arya is 73 and is one of the senior-most councillor across the three corporations who has won five successive terms from Rajouri Garden ward. He is presently the chairman of the civic body's standing committee.
Arya started his political career at the age of 17 when he was appointed as block secretary of Jansangh in 1958 and was general secretary of South Delhi district in 2004-05. He entered in electoral politics by winning the post of Metropolitan Councillor in 1983 which is parallel to MLA of the present time.
The five-year tenure for the Mayor post 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 open category.
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