BJP v/s AAP Midnight chaos at Delhi Civic Body, bottles and ballot boxes flying during

BJP vs. AAP commotion at midnight at the Delhi Civic Body, flying bottles and vote boxes Images taken at the scene showed council members yelling, shoving, and striking one other while others sprayed them with bottled water

The election for the six members of the Standing Committee, seen to be the most influential body in the united Municipal Corporation of Delhi, was chaotic and took place at the Delhi Civic Center. The drama, which began on Wednesday evening, went on into Thursday morning.
Images taken at the scene showed council members yelling, shoving, and striking one other while others sprayed them with bottled water. In addition to throwing ballot boxes into the Well, many of the members started fighting. The pandemonium caused at least eight interruptions of the proceedings.

Shelly Oberoi, the new mayor of Delhi, said that BJP council members assaulted her when she was holding the poll. The BJP asserted that their main goal was to talk to the Mayor about the situation. BJP council members could be seen clambering onto the platform and around the mayor when footage from the scene emerged.
When I was holding the Standing Committee elections following Supreme Court directives, BJP council members suddenly tried to assault me! This is the extent of the BJP’s Gundagardi campaign’s attempt to target a female mayor, the newly elected mayor tweeted.

BJP Councillors just tried to attack me while I was conducting the Standing Committee elections, as per Supreme Court orders! This is the extent of BJP’s Gundagardi that they are trying to attack a woman Mayor.

“We had gone to talk to the mayor that she should listen to us and discuss with us so that a solution can be found in this matter,” said the BJP’s Shikha Rai.

“This is absolutely shocking and unacceptable!” tweeted Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. AAP’s Atishi said they will complain to the police.

Sources said the trouble started as an altercation between the Aam Aadmi Party and the BJP over allegations that some members were carrying cellphones during the voting.

The BJP members demanded that the vote be suspended and a new election be held. Nevertheless, tensions rose due to the late hour and Ms. Oberoi’s determination that the Standing Committee election must be completed tonight.

The BJP claimed that it was authorised in the Standing Committee election to violate confidentiality and prevent AAP members from voting as they pleased. The BJP said that carrying pens and telephones was prohibited during the election for the positions of mayor and deputy mayor.

Claim that some voters were using their cellphones while casting their votes.

“Which covert elections include the use of cellphones? You are doing this to provide pictures of the vote to your high command even though you already know you will lose. This makes democracy look like a farce. Please annul the 50 votes that have already been cast “asked Harish Khurana, a BJP spokesperson for Delhi, during a hastily called news conference.

This evening, hours after the Mayor and Vice Mayor were chosen, voting for the Standing Committee began. Both positions were won by AAP, which has 150 votes in the 274-member house, much above the required 138 for a majority.

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n the Standing Committee, AAP is likely to win three of the six seats and the BJP two. The fight is over the sixth seat, which could help the BJP call the shots in the civic body they controlled for the last 15 years.

The two-month tussle over the nomination of the aldermen — councillors named by the Lieutenant Governor — and whether they can vote in the Mayor elections, were geared towards this day, sources have indicated.

The Mayor election has been delayed three times since the municipal polls in December due to the oath-taking by the ten nominated aldermen and the issue of their vote in the Mayor election. In order to accommodate the Supreme Court hearing on the matter, the election was postponed a fourth time. The constitutional prohibition is “quite plain,” the court had found, therefore prohibiting voting for alderman.