26-04-2023 : Shelly Oberoi of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has been elected as the Mayor of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) after the withdrawal of BJP’s Shikha Rai’s nomination. The election for the Mayor and Deputy Mayor positions had been contentious due to the animosity between the AAP and the BJP. Oberoi, the incumbent Mayor, had defeated BJP’s Rekha Gupta in February by a margin of 34 votes. The post of Mayor in the national capital has five single-year terms on a rotational basis, with the first year reserved for women, the second for the open category, the third for the reserved category, and the remaining two again for the open category.
Oberoi was elected on February 22 after the earlier attempts were disrupted by the tussle between the AAP and the BJP. The MCD gets a new Mayor after the end of a financial year, which led to the recent election. The civic polls held on December 4 last year were the first after the unification of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation, South Delhi Municipal Corporation, and East Delhi Municipal Corporation, which reduced the number of wards from 272 to 250. The AAP had emerged victorious in the polls.