Gurgaon deputy mayor polls deferred again as mayor skips special house meeting

GURGAON: The election of the senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor in the MCG was deferred on Thursday after mayor Raj Rani Malhotra failed to attend the special House meeting, citing medical reasons. The meeting, convened to elect the two key posts, saw the attendance of 32 of the corporation’s 36 councillors. Elected representatives waited until noon before councillors formally announced the postponement of the polls. MCG commissioner Pradeep Dahiya said, "The elections will now be conducted within the next two weeks." The polls were scheduled following directions from the Punjab and Haryana High Court, which had directed the civic body to complete the election process within eight weeks.BJP has a clear majority in MCG House, having won 24 of the 36 seats in March 2025 civic polls, its first majority in the corporation. Ten independents were also elected, and eight of them later joined BJP. Congress and JJP won one seat each. Under Section 36(2) of Haryana Municipal Corporation Act, 1994, the corporation is required to elect two members from among its elected councillors as senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor. Their term is five years or the remainder of their tenure, whichever is shorter. An earlier attempt to hold the elections on August 11, 2025, along with polls for the finance and contracts committee in both MCG and MCM, was postponed indefinitely because councillors failed to reach a consensus. This is the second time that the MCG failed to elect its deputies.