The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which won the Delhi municipal polls in December, was finally able to elect its mayor and deputy mayor after the intervention of the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

Shelly Oberoi and Aaley Mohammad Iqbal were elected mayor and deputy mayor, respectively.

The feat, after three stalled attempts, came on a day when it became known that the Centre has sanctioned the prosecution of Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia for the creation of an unsanctioned vigilance unit which former lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung had called a “counter-Intelligence Bureau”.

Of the 266 secret ballot votes that included MPs and nominated MLAs, Oberoi won 150 and BJP’s Rekha Gupta won 116. A Congress councillor defied her party’s boycott call, and the BJP claimed that three AAP councillors cross-voted. The BJP later stalled the House, accusing the AAP of malpractice while voting.

The elections to the standing committee — mandated by the Supreme Court in Wednesday’s sitting — has not been completed. Violence broke out on the floor of the House after 11pm with councillors throwing plastic bottles at each other.