India, June 4 -- New Delhi

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) finally has its standing committee members in place-Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP's) Satya Sharma winning the election for the 18th seat on Tuesday. This is expected to take forward projects stuck over the past 2.5 years as the committee could not be constituted due to legal tussles between the BJP and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

The house of councillors also passed a resolution for constituting the standing committee on the day and the municipal secretariat issued a notice, for the election of the committee chair on June 12. The BJP, comprising 11 members of the 18-member panel, is in pole position to win this poll as well.

There was a heavy security presence at the Ci...