In a setback to the Aam Aadmi Party, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kausar Jahan was elected as the Delhi Haj Committee chairperson on Thursday. It is for the first time that AAP has lost control of the Delhi Haj Committee as BJP won the elections.
This is the second time in the history of the national capital that a woman has been elected to the position of the panel chief. Former Delhi Congress chief Tajdar Babar was the only woman till now to have held the post.
Jahan received three of the five votes cast by the committee members in the election held at the Delhi Secretariat.
The committee comprises six members -- two each from the AAP and the BJP, Muslim theology expert Mohammad Saad and Congress councillor Nazia Danish. BJP MP Gautam Gambhir is also among the committee members.
Delhi BJP working president Virendra Sachdeva said that Jahan's victory shows the growing trust and faith of Muslims in the party.
"Congratulations to Kausar Jahan on being elected as the Delhi Haj Committee chairperson. The victory of the BJP-affiliated candidate in the Delhi Haj Committee makes it clear that now the Muslim community is also eager to join the country's development stream Shri @narendramodi," Sachdeva said in a tweet in Hindi.
The three votes received by the BJP candidate included those of Gambhir, Saad and Kausar herself. While, Danish abstained from voting.
AAP MLAs Abdul Rehman and Haji Yunus are also members of the committee.
(With PTI inputs)
