Delhi MCD Mayor Election 2023 Highlights: AAP's Shelly Oberoi becomes Delhi mayor with 150 votes, Aaley Mohammad Iqbal elected as Deputy Mayor

Delhi MCD Mayor, Deputy Mayor Election Results 2023

Aam Aadmi Party wins Deputy Mayor election, Aaley Mohammad Iqbal of AAP gets 147 votes. BJP's Kamal Bagri gets 116 votes.#DelhiMayorElection pic.twitter.com/GMXUVLupPB

— ANI (@ANI) February 22, 2023

Delhi MCD Mayor Election 2023

Aaley Mohammad Iqbal elected as Deputy Mayor

AAP's Shelly Oberoi elected Delhi Mayor

Aam Aadmi Party candidate Shelly Oberoi has been elected as the new mayor of Delhi after having secured 150 votes on Wednesday. "I assure you all that I will run this House in a constitutional manner. I expect you all will maintain the dignity of the House and cooperate in its smooth functioning," Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi said as soon as she was elected as the mayor.

गुंडे हार गए, जनता जीत गई।

दिल्ली नगर निगम में आज दिल्ली की जनता की जीत हुई और गुंडागर्दी की हार। @OberoiShelly के मेयर चुने जाने पर दिल्ली की जनता को बधाई https://t.co/mZzmV6KUUw

— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) February 22, 2023

Delhi MCD Mayor Election results LIVE: AAP's Shelly Oberoi defeats BJP's Rekha Gupta to become Delhi mayor

AAP's Shelly Oberoi defeated BJP's Rekha Gupta by a margin of 34 votes to become the mayor of Delhi. Oberoi polled 150 votes while Gupta received 116 votes out of the total 266 votes polled. The voting was held at the Civic Centre. Delhi got the mayor in the fourth attempt since the earlier elections were stalled amid ruckus over voting rights being given to nominated members.

#WATCH | AAP's Shelly Oberoi becomes #Delhi mayor with 150 votes pic.twitter.com/LLbAJ1Xh3D

— ANI (@ANI) February 22, 2023

Delhi MCD Mayor Election Live:

गुंडे हार गये, जनता जीत गयी

दिल्ली नगर निगम में आम आदमी पार्टी का मेयर बनने पर सभी कार्यकर्ताओं को बहुत बधाई और दिल्ली की जनता का तहे दिल से एक बार फिर से आभार

AAP की पहली मेयर @OberoiShelly को भी बहुत बहुत बधाई

— Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) February 22, 2023

Delhi MCD Mayor Election 2023 LIVE updates: 

AAP claims its candidate Shelly Oberoi has won the elections. 

Delhi MCD Mayor Election Live: 

Voting concludes for Delhi's Mayoral election after over 2 hours. A total of 10 nominated MPs, 14 nominated MLAs and 241 elected Councilors out of 250 voted.

Delhi MCD Mayor Election Live

Delhi | After three failed attempts to hold elections to the Mayor post, Delhi Mayoral elections get underway at Dr. S.P. Mukherjee Civic Centre pic.twitter.com/wmly4FTf1H

— ANI (@ANI) February 22, 2023

Delhi MCD Mayor Election Results LIVE: Who can vote?

The electoral college for the election of mayor comprises the 250 elected councillors, seven Lok Sabha and three Rajya Sabha MPs from Delhi and 14 MLAs. The Delhi Assembly Speaker has nominated 13 AAP and one BJP member to the House. The total number of votes in the mayoral polls are 274. The numbers game favours the AAP, which has 150 votes against the BJP's 113.

Delhi MCD Election Results

AAP had emerged as a clear winner in the December 4 polls, bagging 134 wards and ending the BJP's 15-year rule in the civic body. The BJP won 104 wards to finish second, while the Congress won nine seats in the 250-member municipal House.

Delhi MCD Mayor Election LIVE: BJP, AAP held each other responsible

Both the BJP and AAP members had held each other responsible for the derailment of the proceedings. The municipal House in Delhi then convened again on February 6 as the city hoped to get a mayor.  It, however, failed to elect a mayor for the third time in a row following ruckus over the decision to allow aldermen to vote, even as the AAP had alleged a "planned conspiracy" by the BJP to stall the process and said it would move the Supreme Court to seek a "court-monitored" election. The petitioner, Oberoi, had moved the apex court on February 7.

Delhi Mayor Election LIVE: MCD annual Budget impacted 

The crisis impacted the annual budget proceedings and the schedule of taxes for 2023-24 was passed by the Special Officer of the MCD on February 15, since the deliberative wing has not come into place. According to the norms, the schedule of taxes has to be passed by the House before or on February 15.

However, the remaining budget is expected to be passed by the House before March 31, as required, since the new deliberative wing led by a mayor is likely to come into place on February 22.

As per the direction from the Lt Governor, the House that will convene on Wednesday will be a reconvening of the adjourned first House on January 6. 

Delhi Mayor Election LIVE: Rules for election of mayor 

According to the Delhi Municipal Corporation (DMC) Act, 1957, the mayor and the deputy mayor are to be elected in the very first session of the House after the civic polls. However, it has been over two months since the municipal elections were held on December 4.