BJP spreads garbage, choose AAP in MCD polls: Kejriwal

New Delhi, Nov 04: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday accused the BJP of creating mountains of garbage in Delhi during their 15-year tenure in the MCD, asserting that people will choose the AAP in the December 4 civic body polls.

''In the last 15 years, BJP has spread garbage everywhere and created mountains of garbage. On December 4, Delhiites will vote for cleanliness. They will vote to make Delhi beautiful. This time, Delhiites will choose the AAP in MCD,'' Kejriwal said in a tweet in Hindi.

Election for the municipal election in Delhi will be held on December 4, and votes will be counted on December 7. The Model Code of Conduct comes into force in the national capital from Friday.

The filing of nominations will begin from November 7 and the last date for the same is November 14.

Scrutiny of nominations will be done on November 16 while the last date for withdrawal of candidature is November 19.

Candidates can submit their nominations between 11 and 3 pm while the poll time has been set between 8 am to 5:30 pm. The entire process of election will be completed on December 15.

According to data shared by the SEC, as on today, total voters in Delhi are 1,46,73,847, 79,86,705 male, 66,86,081 female and 1,061 transgender. There are a total of 250 wards in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).

The erstwhile MCD, established in 1958, was trifurcated in 2012 during Sheila Dikshit's tenure as the chief minister. It was recently reunified by merging three civic bodies - North, South and East Delhi municipal corporations or NDMC, SDMC and EDMC.