2 weeks Ago By TOI City Desk
NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Atishi on Saturday said that the Aam Aadmi Party ( AAP ) will file a plea in Supreme Court against "unconstitutional, illegal" MCD standing committee election. "The election conducted by the BJP yesterday is illegal, unconstitutional and undemocratic. Under Delhi Municipal Corporation Act 1957, many rules, laws and bylaws have been made by which the MCD is run, the most important of which is the Delhi Municipal Corporation Procedure and Conduct and Business Regulations 1958, that is, any action taken in the MCD will have to be done according to the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act and the regulations made under that Act, " Atishi said.
"According to the rules, it is clear that the members of the Standing Committee will be elected in the meeting of the Corporation. Deciding the time, place and date of the meeting of the Corporation is only in the power of the Mayor. Only the Mayor can decide when the meeting of the Corporation will be held.
Whenever there is a meeting of the Corporation, its presiding officer will be the Mayor or the Deputy Mayor," she added further. The BJP won the last vacant seat of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi's 18-member Standing Committee unopposed on Friday as the councillors of the ruling AAP and Congress boycotted the election. The BJP's candidate Sunder Singh got all 115 votes of the party's councillors while the AAP's Nirmala Kumari did not receive any vote.
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