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New Delhi, June 16 (TIWN) With less than one year left for the Delhi municipal elections scheduled in 2022, the national capital's three municipal agencies on Wednesday found new Mayors along with new faces in some other prominent posts for the next one year.
The Mayors of Delhi’s three municipal bodies — North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC), East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) and South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) were elected unopposed as the names for each post has already been announced by the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The BJP has been in a majority in all the three municipal bodies for the last 15 years. Raja Iqbal Singh, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) Councillor from GTB Nagar municipal ward, has been elected unopposed to the Mayoral post of North Delhi Municipal Corporation. In 2017, both the BJP and the SAD had contested the municipal elections as allies. While the BJP bagged 179 seats, the SAD won five seats. Mukesh Suryan, (Councillor from Sagarpur West municipal ward) will be the new Mayor of SDMC. Shyam Sunder Aggarwal (Councillor from Raghuvarpura municipal ward) was also elected unopposed to the Mayoral post in EDMC. After taking over, the newly elected Mayors said they will stress upon issues like sanitation, education and increasing multiple revenue resources to improve the financial condition of the civic bodies.
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