SETTING a major victory for the Aam Admi Party (AAP), party candidate Shelly Oberoi on Wednesday was elected as the new mayor of Delhi Municipal Corporation (MCD). Oberoi won the Mayor poll by a margin of 34 votes after she received 150 votes while BJP candidate Rekha Gupta garnered 116 votes.
Who Is Shelly Oberoi
- Shelly Oberoi won the MCD civic election from ward number 86 of Patel Nagar Vidhansabha of Delhi on December 7.
- The 39-year-old is a professor by profession. She earned her doctoral degree in philosophy from Indira Gandhi National Open University's School of Management Studies.
- She has worked as an assistant professor at Delhi University.
- Shelly also did a master's degree in commerce at Himachal Pradesh University.
- She is a visiting professor at Delhi University and also a lifetime member of the Indian Commerce Association (ICA).
- Shelly has received multiple awards at various conferences. She has been awarded both the 'Miss Kamla Rani Prize' and a scholarship for achieving the highest grade point average among all the students in the college.
- Shelly joined the AAP in 2013 and she was appointed as the Delhi AAP's vice-president of the women's wing.
Bringing an end to BJP's 15 years of rule over the civic body in Delhi, AAP won the December poll battle by securing 134 of 250 wards. Since then Shelly was expected to appoint its mayor. The MCD held the voting process on Wednesday after three failed attempts on January 6, January 24 and February 6.
Soon after Oberoi elected Delhi's new Mayor, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia took to Twitter and congratulated her for her victory.
"The goons lost, the public won. Many congratulations to all the workers as AAP candidate has become the mayor in Municipal Corporation of Delhi. Once again whole hearted gratitude to the people of Delhi. Many many congratulations to the first Mayor @OberoiShelly of AAP,” he said in a tweet in Hindi.