Overview
- Pravesh Wahi, who won 156 of 165 votes in Wednesday’s mayoral poll, defeated Congress candidate Haji Zarif after AAP chose not to contest.
- BJP councillor Monika Pant became deputy mayor and the party filled two standing committee seats, while AAP’s Jalaj Chaudhary also joined the panel.
- Wahi said his first tasks include visible clean-up work before the monsoon, with drain desilting, road repairs, and on-site checks of landfill biomining.
- He outlined targets to clear the Bhalswa and Okhla dumps by December and Ghazipur by 2027, and cited spending plans such as Rs 50 crore for cleaning machines within an Rs 11,086-crore civic budget.
- AAP said sitting out lets it scrutinize BJP rule and expose failures, and Congress pledged to press issues like waterlogging, vector-borne disease, and pollution that affect daily life.