Key Points
Delhi is all set to witness a high voltage mayoral poll fight between incumbent Shelly Oberoi from AAP and BJP leader Shikha Rai..
Currently, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is the ruling party in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD)...
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...
The civic polls held on December 4 last year were the first after the three corporations were unified into the MCD and a fresh delimitation exercise was carried out, reducing the number of wards from 272 in 2012 to 250...
The unification of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (104 wards), South Delhi Municipal Corporation (104 wards) and East Delhi Municipal Corporation (64 wards) happened last year, with a notification issued to that effect in May 2022...
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