AAP's Shelly Oberoi, an ex-DU professor, is Delhi's new mayor. Here is all you need to know about her

After a 70-day gap, Delhi has finally elected its new mayor and the winner is Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Shelly Oberoi. She beat BJP's Rekha Gupta by 34 votes. In total, she won 150 votes out of 266. The mayoral elections were held at the Civic Centre.

The mayoral election was conducted following a Supreme Court order after three earlier failed attempts to hold the polls. BJP MP from New Delhi Constituency Meenakshi Lekhi was the first one to cast her vote. She was followed by other MPs like Sanjay Singh, Hansraj Hans, and Ramesh Bidhuri.

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia took the opportunity to congratulate her on the win.

"The goons lost, the public won. Many congratulations to all the workers as AAP candidate has become the mayor in Municipal Corporation of Delhi. Once again whole hearted gratitude to the people of Delhi. Many many congratulations to the first Mayor @OberoiShelly of AAP," he said in a tweet.

Shelly Oberoi, was born in Delhi, has been the elected councilor from Ward 86 in the civic elections. She has done her PhD from IGNOU’s School of Management Studies. She has been an assistant professor in several reputed universities.

Inspired by the ideology of Aam Aadmi Party, she joined as an activist in 2013. She became the Delhi State Vice President of Aam Aadmi Party’s women’s wing 2 years ago.

Prior to winning the elections, Shelly Oberoi had said, "I would like to thank Shri Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party for entrusting me with this responsibility. Over the next few months we will all work together to make Delhi the city that it should have been."

When describing the priorities as the mayor of MCD Dr. Shelly Oberoi said, "the party had given 10 guarantees during the elections, they will be fulfilled. Delhi will be cleaned and transformed. The promises made by Chief Minister Shri Arvind Kejriwal to the public will be fulfilled. The BJP had not done any work and had turned Delhi into garbage, we will fix all of it now."

Here's all you need to know about Shelly Oberoi:

• She won the MCD civic election from ward no. 86 on December 7.
• In the past she has also worked as an assistant professor in Delhi University.
• The 39-year-old councilor is also a lifetime member of Indian Commerce Association (ICA).
• Shelly has received a number of awards at various conferences.
• She has earned her doctoral degree in philosophy from Indira Gandhi National Open University's School of Management Studies.
• The councilor has also been awarded both the 'Miss Kamla Rani Prize' and a scholarship for achieving the highest grade point average among all the students in the college.
• She earned her master's degree in commerce at Himachal Pradesh University.

The municipal House began half an hour late at around 11.30 am. After mayoral poll, election to the posts of deputy mayor and six members of the standing committee will be held, presided by the new mayor.