The three Municipal Corporations elected mayors and deputy mayors on Wednesday. Raja Iqbal Singh, Mukesh Suryan and Shyam Sunder Aggarwal have been elected as Mayors of north, south and east corporations respectively.
Raja Iqbal Singh and Archna of BJP were elected unanimously for the posts of Mayor and Deputy Mayor of North Delhi municipal corporation respectively on Wednesday. Iqbal Singh is elected Councillor from Ward No. 14 (GTB Nagar), while Ms. Archna is elected from Ward No. 04 (Holambi khurd).
“Jogi Ram Jain (BJP), Vijay Bhagat (BJP) and Mr. Rajiv Yadav (Aam Aadmi Party) were elected to the Standing Committee of the house unanimously. Besides, North Delhi Municipal Corporation also selected Yogesh Verma as Member Advisory Council Delhi Development Authority from North DMC in its meeting,” her said.
Singh said that sanitation, education and health would be his priority to save Delhi from the third wave of Covid-19. He said that stress on making the Corporation self-reliant for the proposed ongoing projects would be given a boost.
The newly elected EDMC mayor thanked the party leadership and said that he will work to make the civic body self-reliant.
Besides, Beer Singh Panwar (Ward No 35-, Dilshad Garden); Himanshi Pandey (Ward No-13,) Kishan Kunj; and Mohini (Ward No-34, New Seemapuri) were also elected unopposed as the members of the Standing Committee.
BJP councilor from Sagarpur Mukesh Suryan was unanimously elected to the post of Mayor in the house meeting.
After taking over the new assignment, Suryan said that in view of the financial challenges being faced by the SDMC due to Covid pandemic and lockdown, we need to focus on a better revenue generation plan to deal with the situation and try to make the South Corporation self-sustainable. The newly elected Mayor also stated that we all will work together to provide all modern amenities in SDMC localities.