Despite serious allegations of land encroachment by AAP’s Malviya Nagar legislator Somnath Bharti against him, Shailender Singh, a Councillor from ward no 163, got elected unopposed as the Chairman, Standing Committee of the South Corporation on Friday. Soon after being elected, Shailender Singh expressed his gratitude to the members of the Standing Committee, the Leaders of the South Corporation and his party and said that he will not allow anyone to demean the relevance and importance of the Standing Committee and will ensure that welfare schemes of the corporations are percolate down to the citizens. He said that the Corporation would work sincerely to implement the Swachh Bharat Mission launched by Prime Minister Narender Modi so that cleanliness would not
be confined only on papers.