new delhi the aam aadmi party said on monday that the supreme courts observations on the eligibility of nominated aldermen to vote for the mayor in the municipal corporation of delhi had vindicated the partys stand on the issue for its part bjp said that it would abide by the court ruling but that it would also file an intervention application in the courtwhile the development has come as a loss of face for bjp which had insisted that aldermen could vote for the mayor aaps argument that the participation of the nominated members would skew the vote in favour of bjp got a boostaap spokesperson saurabh bhardwaj said we want to thank the supreme court for upholding the law there still is one institution in this country which the government cannot pressurebharadwaj alleged it was shameless of the central government to resort to cheating when the law clearly says that nominated members cannot vote three times they did not allow the mcd house to function to be able to win a small mayors electiondelhi bjp general secretary harsh malhotra said that his party would abide by the judgment bjp believes that when a matter is subjudice we should not react outside to any observation made in the courtroom on monday bjp candidate for mayor rekha gupta moved an intervention application in the matter before the apex court and we will now present our contention to the court said malhotrasatya sharma presiding officer whose insistence that aldermen could vote had led to the impasse said the courts direction would be implemented in letter and spirit it will be applicable to all political parties we always believe in holding elections in a fair manner she claimedexperts said the supreme court observation was anticipated because the delhi municipal corporation act was explicit on this matter anil gupta former chief law officer of the erstwhile north delhi municipal corporation elaborated section 31b of dmc act states that the 10 nominated persons have no right to vote in the meeting of the corporation so the presiding officers decision to allow aldermen to vote in the mayoral election was unexpectedexperts also clarified that though section 14 of the amended act gave the lg the power to come out with a notification in case of difficulty in implementing the amendments the old provisions couldnt be tampered with section 14 doesnt allow amendment of the old provisions such as to give power to aldermen to vote in the mayors elections asserted guptaa retired mcd official stated that the aldermen were supposed to be specialists in various fields who could enrich the corporation with their knowledge and contribute to policymaking but now the majority of them are political leaders or former councillors and they are raising issues to support their political parties the official alleged when they have not been elected why should they have the power to vote on decisions related to the general publicthough the dmc act mandates the election of the mayor and deputy mayor