Delhi cast votes on December 4 to choose the MCD, the city’s dominant municipal corporation.
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The primary disagreement between the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which is in power in the city, the BJP, which currently controls the MCD, and the Congress is on garbage collection and landfills.
Voting was open from 8 am until 5:30 pm. The voting turnout up until 4 o’clock was 45%. On November 30, the results will be released.
Voters at various polling places in the city complained to NDTV that they were unable to cast their ballots because their names were not included on the electoral list. Others voiced annoyance at being repeatedly sent to other polling places.
The MCD’s three divisions were recently merged, and city districts were redrawn, just before the election.
For 250 municipal seats, there are more than 1,300 contenders.
Although the BJP has lost all 24 Delhi assembly elections, it has succeeded in keeping control of the MCD for 15 years.
Even after the AAP set a new record by winning 67 of the 70 seats in the 2015 Assembly elections, the BJP was able to keep its hold on the civic body by winning 181 of the 272 seats two years later. Congress came in third with 30, and AAP came in second with 48.
This time, the BJP used the accusation of corruption against the AAP to recruit Prime Minister Narendra Modi, union ministers under the leadership of Amit Shah, party chief JP Nadda, and several chief ministers to campaign for it.
The BJP, according to Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP, completely failed to address the city’s sanitation crisis and deal with the expanding landfills.
The assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh and PM Modi’s home state of Gujarat, where the BJP is also in power, are the other two election campaigns that have been going on concurrently over the past few months. The Delhi civic body election is one of them.
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