Delhi authorities has given its nod for convening of the following session of the municipal House on February 16 for holding the election to the submit of mayor, official stated on Thursday.

A senior official of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi stated the MCD had despatched the proposal suggesting this date on Thursday.

Earlier within the day, sources had claimed that the AAP authorities had proposed February 13 or 14 as the following date of assembly of the newly elected municipal House.

Three successive conferences of the House in final one month had been adjourned amid ruckus and commotion over resolution to give voting rights to aldermen, with out electing mayor, deputy mayor and members of the standing committee of the civic physique.

The House was convened for the primary time on January 6, after the high-stakes civic polls on December 4, and was adjourned following acrimonious exchanges between members of the BJP and the AAP.

The second municipal House held on January 24, was briefly adjourned after the oath-taking ceremony, and was later adjourned until subsequent date by the professional tem presiding officer.

After that the House was adjourned on final Monday once more for the third time, a month after the primary municipal House.

After the House was adjourned on Monday, the AAP had alleged that the mayoral election couldn’t be held because the BJP was “strangulating democracy and the Constitution of India”, while the saffron party accused the Aam Aadmi Party of coming out with excuses to stall the mayoral poll and blamed the AAP for the stalemate.

The AAP had emerged as a clear winner in the December 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 wards in the 250-member municipal House.

The civic body in Delhi had 272 wards across its three corporations — NDMC, SDMC, and EDMC, which existed from 2012-2022 — before being reunified into a sole MCD which formally came into existence on May 22 last year.

Meanwhile, Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor said, “We welcome any date for mayor election if only the Aam Aadmi Party actually allows the election to take place, but one fails to understand that when the matter is sub judice under hearing on February 13 itself then what is the logic of proposing any date for an election”.

The municipal House in Delhi on February 6 had failed to elect a mayor for the third time in a row in a month, following ruckus over the choice to permit aldermen to vote within the mayoral ballot, even because the AAP alleged a “deliberate conspiracy” by the BJP to stall the process.

An agitated AAP, which is seeking a “court-monitored” election, moved the Supreme Court on Tuesday over this challenge.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought responses of the workplace of the lieutenant governor, professional tem presiding officer of the MCD Satya Sharma, and others on a plea filed by AAP’s mayoral candidate Shelly Oberoi.

A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala stated it’s issuing discover on the plea and in search of replies by subsequent Monday.

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