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New Delhi: President Draupadi Murmu has increased the powers of the Lieutenant Governor (LG) of Delhi. Now LG will be able to form authority, board, commission or statutory body in the capital. Apart from this, he will also be able to appoint members in all these bodies.
Earlier this right was with the Delhi government. The Home Ministry issued a notification related to increasing the powers of LG late on Tuesday night. The ministry said that this decision has been taken under the National Capital Territory of Delhi Government Act, 1991.
After the intervention of the central government, elections of 12 ward committees of Delhi Municipal Corporation (MCD) will be held today. On the instructions of Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena, MCD Commissioner Ashwani Kumar appointed presiding officers to conduct elections of all ward committees. He has made the Deputy Commissioners of all zones of MCD as the presiding officers.
Earlier, Mayor Shaili Oberoi had refused to appoint a presiding officer, raising questions on the election process of ward committees. Meanwhile, the central government gave the Lieutenant Governor the right to appoint a presiding officer. The empowering of Delhi LG is actually a big setback to Aam Aadmi Party led government.
Actually, the process of filing nomination papers for conducting elections was completed on 30 August. MCD Commissioner Ashwani Kumar had sent the file to appoint the presiding officer, but Mayor Shaili Oberoi refused to make the appointment.
