Tag: #ex-du#professor

Wednesday marked the House's fourth attempt to pick a mayor after it had previously failed to decide whether the LG-nominated members should be permitted to cast ballots. Shelly Oberoi, a first-time councillor for the Aam Aadmi Party, was chosen as Delhi's new mayor on Wednesday, putting an end to a months-long spat between the ruling AAP and the opposition BJP over the voting privileges of nominated members. In the municipal elections held in December, Oberoi won a council seat in the BJP-stronghold ward of Delhi East Patel Nagar. The 39-year-old is a former visiting professor who holds a PhD in management studies from the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). Due to a political squabble between the Aam Aadmi Party and Bharatiya Janata Party over voting rights to the Hous