In a significant move, Delhi unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to replace leaders at all the coveted posts in three Municipal Corporations of Delhi — Mayors, Deputy Mayors, Chairman Standing Committee and leader of the House. The new team will have only 10 months to perform as MCDs will go to elections in May 2017.
Sanjeev Nayyar, a doctor by profession and councillor of BJP from in Paschim Vihar, has filed his nomination for the post of Mayor and Tara Chand Bansal of BJP from Rohini East filed his nomination for the post of Deputy Mayor of North Delhi Municipal Corporation. Senior BJP councillors Pravesh Wahi and Vijay Praksh Pandey filed nominations for the post of leader of the House and Chairman Standing Committee respexctively. As candidature of these councillors were not challenged by any of the Congress candidate, these leaders will be elected unopposed.
Vijay Prakash Pandey, BJP councillor, Neelam Buddhiraja, another BJP councillor and Prithvi Singh Rathore, Congress, also filed their nominations for the posts of members of the Standing Committee to be nominated from the Corporation. There were three vacancies of members of Standing Committee.
As Monday was the last day for filing
nominations in South MCD too, Shyam Sharma of BJP and Praveen Rana of Congress filed their nominations for Mayor post. Sitting Mayor Shubhash Arya filed nomination for
member Standing Committee along with Shailendra Singh and leader of Opposition Fardah Suri.