After grabbing the Mayoral posts, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Friday said the work for a developed, clean and prosperous Delhi will speed up with the election of BJP candidate Raja Iqbal Singh as mayor, setting in motion triple engine of party ruled Centre, Delhi government and the MCD.
CM Gupta lauded Singh who was elected as mayor in the elections held at Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) headquarters, defeating Congress candidate Mandeep Singh in a one sided affair. The BJP councillor Jai Bhagwan Yadav was elected unopposed as deputy mayor since the Congress candidate Ariba Khan withdrew from the race.
“Now, under the leadership of the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi ji, with the power of the triple engine - Centre, Corporation and Delhi Government - the work of making the capital clean, prosperous and developed will move ahead at a faster pace,” she said in a post on X.
Reacting to the BJP’s winning the Mayoral polls, the AAP boycotted the Mayor and Deputy Mayor elections of the MCD declaring the BJP’s “four-engine government” would now be forced to deliver real results instead of empty rhetoric.
“Despite all the tactics and manipulations, the BJP has only 117 councillors in the MCD of 250 councillors. Even in a House of 238 councillors, a majority of 120 is required. BJP should know that in a 4-engine government, no excuses, no rhetoric will be tolerated; now the work will have to be shown by doing it. The public will know in 1 month,” said AAP Delhi State Convener Saurabh Bhardwaj.
Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva asserted that after the election of party candidates as mayor and deputy mayor, the path for smooth administration and citizen services of the MCD has been set. “The newly elected mayor will soon ensure formation of the Standing Committee of the civic body so that Delhi residents can begin reaping the benefits of the triple-engine governance by the BJP at the earliest,” he said.
