Prithvi Raj Sawhney is Delhi’s new mayor
April 30th, 2010 - 6:51 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Prithvi Raj Sawhney was elected the mayor of Delhi Friday.
Sawhney got 178 votes while his opponent Tulsi Ram Sablania of the Congress got 88 out of the 275 votes cast in the poll. The Bahujan Samaj Party’s Hari Chand Kardam withdrew his nomination before the election got under way.
“Of the 275 cast votes, nine votes were invalid,” said a spokesman of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).
Sawhney succeeds his party colleague Kanwar Sain, whose one-year term ended Friday. As per the rules, each year a new mayor is selected by the city’s councillors.
The post is reserved for a woman candidate for the first year and in the second year a person from the general category is elected. For the third year, the post is reserved for a person from the Schedule Caste.
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