Delhi Mayor Polls: BJP Regains Control Of MCD As Raja Iqbal Elected New Mayor, Jai Bhagwan Dy Mayor

MCD Mayor Election 2025: The Bharatiya Janata Party has regained energy within the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) after an opening of 2 years, with the elections for the Mayor and Deputy Mayor concluding on Friday. BJP’s Raja Iqbal gained 133 votes to grow to be Mayor in opposition to Congress’ Mandeep Singh who gained 8 votes, and 7 votes have been declared invalid. Congress candidate for Deputy Mayor, Ariba Khan, withdrew her title from the race paving approach for BJP’s Jai Bhagwan’s election as Deputy Mayor of Delhi unopposed. 

Thanking the birthday party management, Raja Iqbal stated that his primary function is to scrub Delhi, take away the rubbish mountains, unravel the problem of waterlogging, and supply all elementary and very important amenities to the folks of Delhi. With the AAP boycotting the election, the BJP conveniently swept the civic posts, solidifying its keep watch over over Delhi in the course of the Centre, the nominated MLAs within the Assembly and now the MCD. However, the AAP councillors voted for the Congress candidate.

The present energy of the MCD is 238, as 12 seats lie vacant because of some councillors getting elected to the Delhi Assembly and one to Lok Sabha. Out of 250 seats, BJP has 117 councillors, up from 104 in 2022, whilst AAP’s tally has dropped to 113 from its previous 134. Congress has simply 8 seats. The electoral school for the mayoral election integrated 238 councillors, 10 MPs (seven from the Lok Sabha and 3 from the Rajya Sabha) and 14 MLAs — Delhi Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta has nominated 11 BJP and 3 AAP MLAs because the electors.

The earlier mayoral election, hung on November 14, 2024, had observed AAP’s Mahesh Kumar Khinchi win by means of a razor-thin margin of simply 3 votes. However, next defections and political shifts have considerably altered the MCD’s energy stability.