BJP Councillors Adesh Kumar Gupta and Bipin Bihari Singh were elected unopposed as Mayors of North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NMC) and East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) respectively in the mayoral elections of two civic bodies held on Friday. Kiran Vaid and Rajesh Kumar of the BJP were elected as Deputy Mayor of EDMC and NMC respectively.
Moment after results were announced, new NMC Mayor Gupta said he will work with the officials to make the corporation self-reliant.
New EDMC Mayor Singh said he will focus on sanitation, health, education and parking issues in its areas. "Swachchhata Mission launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be implemented effectively with more dedicated efforts and commitment. Public awareness programme would also be initiated in this regard," he added.
Considering health top on his agenda, the new EDMC Mayor assured that he would focus on revenue generation through innovative measures. "We will also ask the Delhi Government to release EDMC share as per the 4th Delhi Finance Commission's recommendation," he said, adding, "I will hold a discussion with the department on a regular interval to improve functioning."
Further, newly elected Mayor also said that an action plan will be prepared after discussions with the experts in the various sector to manage civic affairs in a well-coordinated way.
Kiran Vaid and Rajesh Kumar of the BJP got elected as Deputy Mayor of EDMC and NMC respectively.
Singh represent Patparganj and Kiran Vaid represent Mayur Vihar Phase-I. Elections for three members of Standing Committee in EDMC were also held among Satyapal Singh (Ward No. 61) Karawal Nagar (BJP), Ramesh Chandra Gupta (Ward No. 25) Shashtri Park (BJP), Sandeep Kapoor (Ward No. 21) Krishna Nagar (BJP), and Mohini (Ward No. 34) New Seema Puri (AAP).
61 votes were polled out of total of 64 and Satya Pal Singh, Ramesh Chandra Gupta and Sandeep Kapoor were declared elected according to preferential pattern of voting.
Veena Virmani, Nisha Mann, and Mukesh Goel were declared elected according to preferential pattern of voting.
The erstwhile Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) was trifurcated into North, South and East Delhi Municipal Corporations or NDMC, SDMC and EDMC in 2012.
The mayoral five-year tenure sees five single-year terms on a rotation basis, with the first year being reserved for women, the second open category, third for reserved category and the remaining two also being in the open category.
On Thursday, Narender Chawala had elected as Mayor and Satyapal Malik elected as Deputy Mayor of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC). Chawla is a Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) councillor from ward number 15, Janakpuri West. Punam Bhati, outgoing Mayor Kamaljeet Sehrawat and AAP's Narender Kumar have been elected as members of Standing Committee.