L-G cancels Delhi mayor election; AAP, BJP clash

A couple of months after a face-off between Aam Aadmi Party and Bharatiya Janata Party ’over Chandigarh mayoral, the two were again at loggerheads over the issue of the Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena cancelling the election for the posts of mayor, which was this year reserved for a Scheduled Caste candidate, and the deputy mayor.

- GAURAV VIVEK BHATNAGAR

This time the two sides are locked in a struggle over the Municipal Corporation of Delhi after LG Saxena cancelled the election for the post of mayor and the deputy mayor.

The L-G had on Thursday said that the election for the mayor of Delhi cannot be conducted as Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is in jail in a “corruption case” and was thus unable to perform his duties. The APP had countered this saying this contention was not true.