New Delhi, April 17 -- The Municipal Council of Delhi (MCD) will hold elections for mayor and deputy mayor, as well as for the three posts open on the standing committee, on April 29, it announced in a notice on Thursday. The notice, issued by the municipal secretary, said that the elections will be conducted during a regular meeting. Candidates have to file nominations for the posts by 5pm on April 23. These have to be signed by them and by two corporation members - the proposer and the seconder. Mayors in Delhi follow a five-year rotation of one-year terms, in which the first is reserved for women, second for the general category, third for a reserved category, with the fourth and fifth being for the general category. This is the final term of current rotation and Raja Iqbal Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) holds the post. The elections for the mayoral posts are held in the first meeting of every financial year, usually in April. They were last held in April 2025, when Singh was elected. In 2024, the mayoral elections were held in November since then chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, being in jail, was unable to give his approval to the exercise. The standing committee posts were vacated after three elected members retired on March 31 after a draw of lots. HTC...