MCD poll for Standing Committee seat postponed after high-voltage drama

The MCD polls for the sixth seat of the standing committee were postponed on Thursday after drama throughout the day with Mayor Shelly Oberoi adjourning the polls until October 5 and Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena overturning her decision later.

There is uncertainty over when the polls will happen, however, sources said the polls are likely to take place on Friday (September 27).

Following disruption over frisking of the councillors, the election to the MCD Standing Committee was postponed with the meeting of the House being adjourned till October 5 earlier in the day. In a last minute intervention, Saxena late night overturned the postponement of elections for the last vacant seat of the standing committee and directed MCD Commissioner Ashwani Kumar to submit a report by 10 pm.

Saxena instructed to make the deputy mayor the presiding officer for the elections if the mayor refuses to hold the elections. In case, the deputy mayor also refuses, the senior most member of the House will preside over the elections, he ordered.

Following the order, the MCD commissioner issued an order for the conduct of the elections for the sixth member of the standing committee.