Before Shelly Oberoi delves into administrative work as Delhi's mayor, her primary challenge awaits in the form of helping elect the six standing committee members.
Chaos erupted when the BJP alleged that during the secret voting, councillors were taking photographs of the ballots through their mobile phones & demanded fresh elections to be conducted.
The House managed to elect a mayor in its 4th attempt Wednesday, having failed before on the question of whether the LG-nominated members should be allowed to vote.
AAP claims aldermen have no right to vote in election of mayor or deputy mayor, while presiding officer Satya Sharma declared in MCD House that 10 aldermen appointed by LG could vote.
While AAP is expected to win the mayoral polls, the 10 LG nominees may skew the numbers in favour of BJP in the corporation’s all-powerful standing committee.
If there is bad blood between the CEC and the Opposition leaders, it will shake the people’s faith in election results. It’s the worst thing that could happen to Indian democracy.
Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.
New Delhi: India has handed over military equipment, medical supplies, and trained animals to the Nepalese Army Monday, ahead of Prime Minister K.P. Sharma...
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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