Delhi News Live Updates: BJP defeats AAP in MCD ward poll, secures 7 of 12 zones

Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena on Wednesday inaugurated 22 developmental projects, including the installation of street lights, improvement of roads and the renovation of a community hall, in 18 villages of southwest Delhi under the Dilli Gramoday Abhiyan (DGA), a statement said.

Apart from these, the Namo Drone Didi programme was also launched in the national capital with a mission to financially empower women and their self-help groups, it said.

Under the Namo Drone Didi scheme, around 200 women in the city will be trained to operate drones and be given a drone pilot licence certificate.

Saxena said the DGA was aligned with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of developing the villages and creating amenities at par with those in cities.

"My endeavour is to develop all the villages of the national capital in the same way as other areas of Delhi have been developed," he said. (PTI)

The BJP on Wednesday defeated the AAP in the MCD zonal ward polls, sealing its dominance in the highest decision making body of the civic agency -- the standing committee.

The BJP bagged the posts of chairman, deputy chairman of the zonal-level ward committees, and one member each for standing committee in seven of 12 zones, restricting AAP to five zones in the keenly contested poll.

Voting in three zones -- Karol Bagh, City SP, and Keshav Puram -- was not held as neither the BJP nor the AAP fielded their candidates.

BJP bagged Narela, Civil Lines, Keshav Puram, Shahdara North, Najafgarh, Shahdara South, and Central Zones, while AAP won Karol Bagh, West, South, City SP and and Rohini zones.

Pawan Shehrawat and Sugandha, the councillors who recently switched sides from the AAP to BJP, won the post of chairman for the ward committees from Narela and Central Zones respectively.

The Civil Lines Zone saw a keen contest between the AAP and BJP with the saffron party winning all three posts by a margin of one vote each. (PTI)

Results for the most contentious Narela Zone declared. BJP bags all three posts. Here the BJP had 5 elected councillors, 1 AAP defector had later joined the BJP, the zone also had 4 LG appointed aldermen.

Chairman

Pawan Kumar ( Ward No - 30) BJP (winner)

Shweta Khatri (Ward no -01) AAP

Total Vote - 20

AAP - 09

BJP - 11

Deputy Chairmain

Babita ( Ward No - 31) BJP (winner)

Ritu Mukesh Kumar (ward No- 26) AAP

Total Vote - 20

AAP - 09

BJP - 11

One member to Standing Committee from Wards Committee

Mr. Anju Devi ( Ward No- 29) BJP (winner)

Manisha Jasbir Karala (Ward No - 33) AAP

Total Vote - 20

AAP - 08

BJP - 12

BJP bags the Civil Line Zone with 1 vote on each post. The BJP had 6 councillors and 4 aldermen in the zone, the AAP had 9 councillors.

Chairman

Anil Kumar Tyagi ( Ward No - 06) BJP (Winner)

Ajeet Singh Yadav (Ward no -17) AAP

Total Vote - 19

AAP - 09

BJP - 10

Deputy Chairmain

Rekha ( Ward No - 12) BJP (Winner)

Gagan Chaudhary (ward No- 10) AAP

Total Vote - 19

AAP - 09

BJP - 10

One member to Standing Committee from Wards Committee

Raja Iqbal Singh (Ward No- 13) BJP (Winner)

Promila Gupta (Ward No - 11) AAP

Total Vote - 19

AAP - 09

BJP - 10

The Delhi Police has told the high court that former IAS probationer Puja Khedkar submitted two disability certificates to show multiple disabilities and its probe has revealed that one of the documents may be "forged" and "fabricated".

The Delhi Police made the submission in response to the anticipatory bail plea of Khedkar, who has been accused of cheating and wrongly availing Other Backward Classes (OBC) and disability quota benefits.

The agency said Khedkar submitted the two disability certificates for the civil services examinations-2022 and civil services examinations-2023 respectively.

After verification, the "Issuing Medical Authority, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra", has however claimed that the certificate that showed locomotor disability, hearing impairment and low vision was not issued in accordance with the "Civil Surgeon Office Records" and "the possibility of the disability certificate being forged and fabricated is more likely", the status report informed.

The matter is scheduled for hearing on September 5. (PTI)

BJP bags all three seats in Shahdara north against AAP and congress. The AAP and Congress had a pact for the zone — AAP withdrew their nominations for the post of chairman and deputy chairman to support Congress’ candidates. While, congress had withdrawn the nomination for the post of standing committee member. However, the BJP stood victorious nonetheless bagging all three seats.

Shahdara North Zone

Chairman

Sh. Pramod Gupta ( Ward No -232) BJP (Winner)

Zarif ( Ward No -234) INC

Priyanka Saxena (Ward no -235) AAP Withdraw her Name

Total Vote - 35

AAP - 0 (Name withdraw)

BJP - 19

INC - 16

Deputy Chairmain

Ritesh Suji ( Ward No -224) BJP (Winner)

Naziya Khatoon ( Ward No -245) INC

Roshan Lal (ward No- 240) AAP, Withdraw his name.

Total Vote - 35

AAP - 0 (withdraw Name)

BJP - 18

INC - 17

One member to Standing Committee from Wards Committee

Satyapal Singh ( Ward No- 248) BJP (winner)

Chhaya Gaurav Sharma (Ward No - 229) AAP

Ms Sabila Begam (Ward No - 243) INC - Withdraw her name

Total Vote - 35

AAP - 17

BJP - 18

INC - 0 (Name withdraw)

Cross voting is taking place in South Zone. The zone has 16 AAP councillors and 6 BJP.

After a 19-month delay, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi’s (MCD) ward committee elections are taking place today. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won four zones while the BJP have secured wins in three so far.

Elections in six zones City and SP Zone, Rohini Zone, Najafgarh Zone, West Zone, South Zone, and Central Zone are being held between 10 am and 4 pm in Hansraj Gupta Auditorium at the civic body headquarters.

In the remaining six zones, including Karol Bagh Zone, Keshav Puram Zone, Shahdara South Zone, Shahdara North Zone, Civil Lines Zone, and Narela Zone, elections are being conducted simultaneously in Satya Narayan Bansal Auditorium at the MCD headquarters.

In Shahdara north, the only zone where Congress had filed nominations, the AAP had withdrawn its nominations. The AAP plans upon supporting the Congress.

This makes it a tough fight for the BJP in a zone where it had the maximum number of councillors.

The BJP has 18 elected councillors in the zone, AAP 12 along with the support of one independent, it pushes their count to 13. The Congress has four councillors in the zone.