BJP Wins Delhi Civic Body Panel Poll After AAP, Congress Stay Away
NDTV
All of this comes after the Aam Aadmi Party - last night - boycotted voting in a late-night session summoned by Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena, the centre's rep in the national capital.
The BJP's Sundar Singh Tanwar was nominated to the 18th, and final, seat of the Delhi Municipal Corporation's Standing Committee on Friday afternoon, following an election that featured only his party's councillors. Tanwar got 115 votes - the number of BJP councillors in the House.
Tanwar's win - which will almost certainly be challenged in court - means the BJP now has control over the Standing Committee, which is widely seen as the real power behind the municipal body. The BJP now has 10 of its 18 members and can select the Chair.
The AAP has 125 councillors and, had the party voted today (and providing none of its votes would have been poached by the BJP) it would most likely have won the election, and control of the Standing Committee, which takes most of the municipal body's financial decisions.
