NEW DELHI: Amid a move to reunify the three municipal corporations in Delhi, several former mayors on Thursday welcomed the decision, even as they pitched for according "greater power" and "longer serving tenure" for the post of mayor. They also claimed that after reverting to a unified civic body, as was the arrangement till 2012, the financial condition of the three corporations would also "surely improve".
The Centre plans to bring a bill in the budget session of Parliament to unify the three municipal corporations of Delhi, the State Election Commission said on Wednesday as it deferred the announcement of the election schedule for the civic bodies.
Senior BJP leader and former South Delhi mayor Subhash Arya, who has served as a leader of the House and as a Leader of the Opposition during the period of the unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), said, "We had opposed the move to trifurcate the MCD back then also, when it was proposed during the Sheila Dikshit government in Delhi".
