India, March 23 -- Delhi speaker Vijender Gupta on Friday nominated 11 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and three Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislators to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), who will form a part of the electoral college that elects the mayor and deputy mayor of Delhi.

During the previous regime, the AAP nominated 13 of its MLAs and one from the BJP to the MCD.

In a statement, Gupta said that the nominated MLAs would assist the MCD in budget formulation, civic administration and urban governance. "The newly elected MLAs will have a tenure of one year as nominated members of the municipal corporation, which is the procedure. All the MLAs will get a chance to be nominated to MCD by rotation," Gupta said.

The BJP MLAs nomina...