Why Arvind Kejriwal blamed BJP wrongly overpowered MCD and stole the mandate?
Reportedly the bharatiya janata party (BJP) on friday won the last vacant seat of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi’s (MCD) 18 member Standing Committee unopposed as the councilors of the ruling AAP and congress boycotted the election. The BJP’s candidate Sunder Singh got all 115 votes of the party’s councilors while the AAP’s Nirmala Kumari did not receive any vote as the AAP boycotted the polls saying that the voting process is illegal.Meanwhile AAP supreme arvind kejriwal alleged that the bjp wrongly overpowered the MCD and stole the mandate. Addressing the delhi Assembly, kejriwal said that according to rules only the mayor can convene a meeting of the MCD house but the lieutenant governor changed it and directed an additional commissioner of the civic body to do it. Amid a high-drama voting process, the election to the last vacant seat began earlier today, as per MCD Commissioner Ashwani Kumar’s order issued upon L-G v K Saxena’s directions late Thursday.Moreover the election was scheduled to take place on Thursday. It was not conducted and the MCD session marred by protests, was adjourned to october 5 by Mayor Shelly Oberoi on the ground that the councilors be allowed to carry mobile phones inside the voting hall/polling booth. Councillors from the AAP refused to enter the house protesting against security checks that were put in place at Thursday’s session. The civic body had also pasted an order prohibiting mobile phones in the House.