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Aam Aadmi Party's Mahesh Khichi elected as next mayor of Delhi

Khichi, a Dalit candidate fielded by the Arvind Kejriwal-led party, defeated the BJP's Kishan Lal by a wafer-thin margin of three votes

PTI New Delhi Published 14.11.24, 07:21 PM
Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Mahesh Khichi during celebration after being elected as the next Mayor of Delhi, at MCD House, in New Delhi, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024.

Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Mahesh Khichi during celebration after being elected as the next Mayor of Delhi, at MCD House, in New Delhi, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. PTI

The Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Mahesh Khichi was elected as the next mayor of Delhi on Thursday, in a major boost to the ruling party in the national capital ahead of the Assembly polls due early next year.

Khichi, a Dalit candidate fielded by the Arvind Kejriwal-led party, defeated the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Kishan Lal by a wafer-thin margin of three votes. While Khichi got 133 votes, Lal secured 130 votes. Two votes were declared invalid.

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The eight councillors of the Congress did not participate in the voting process.

The counting of the votes polled for the election of the deputy mayor is underway.

The polls, which were delayed from April due to a protracted war of words between the AAP and the BJP, saw the Congress boycott the voting process, demanding a full term for the mayor rather than the truncated tenure now on offer.

Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by The Telegraph Online staff and has been published from a syndicated feed.

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