Preeti Aggarwal and Vijay Kumar Bhagat of BJP are all set to be elected Mayor and Deputy Mayors of North Delhi Municipal Corporation after their nominations for the top post on Thursday.
The BJP, which has swept the civic polls, is likely to win the Mayor and Deputy Mayor posts unanimously since only one nomination each has been filed for the posts of Mayor and Deputy Mayor.
Preety Aggarwal is a councillor from Rohini-F ward while Vijay Bhagat councillor from Swami Sharda Nand Colony ward.
On Thursday, the last day of the nominations for the North DMC, all three political parties- the BJP, the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party-candidates filed their nominations for the upcoming mayoral polls, and six members of the Standing Committee. The elections for North DMC will be held on May 18.
While nominations for standing committee are: Seema Tahira (Congress), Tilak Raj Kataria (BJP), Jai Prakash (BJP), Jayendra Dabas (BJP), Ramesh Kumar (BJP), Aadesh Kumar Gupta (BJP), Vikas Goel (Aam Aadmi Party).
Mayor, Deputy Mayor and office-bearers of standing committees of the Corporation will be elected in the first meeting of the newly elected councillors. The MCD act stipulates the appointment of a woman councillor as the first Mayor during the five-year term of the municipal corporations. The elections in north MCD appear mere formalities due to clear majority of BJP councillors.
The BJP, which fielded new faces in 267 of the 272 wards, won all three municipalities with a bigger margin than last time. In 2012 it had won a total of 138 wards. In 2017 it has won 181 wards.
The dates for the Mayoral elections are - North Delhi Municipal Corporation (May 18), South Delhi Municipal Corporation (May 19) and East Delhi Municipal Corporation (May 22),
A mayor will be elected in the first meeting of the municipal house after the civic polls. On that day, the newly elected councillors would also be administered oath.