Bengaluru gets Congress Mayor after BJP skips civic poll
Friday - September 28, 2018 2:46 pm ,
Category : INDIA
Bengaluru gets Congress Mayor after BJP skips civic poll
Bengaluru Sep 28 (IANS) Congress woman corporator Gangambike Mallikarjun was on Friday elected the Mayor of Bengaluru s municipal corporation after the BJP walked out of the civic poll said an official.
Gangambike Mallikarjun of the Congress was declared elected as Bengaluru s 52nd Mayor by 130 votes Regional Commissioner Shivayogi Kalasad said.
Gangambike s opponent was the Bharatiya Janata Party s Shobha Anjanappa but the party did not take part in the election.
Even though the BJP has more corporators a pre-poll tie-up between the ruling Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) and Congress denied it the coveted mayoral post for a second consecutive year.
Alleging that the Congress and JD-S alliance had "hijacked" Independent corporators who offered support to the BJP its legislators and corporators staged a walkout.
JD-S corporator Ramila Umashankar was elected the Deputy Mayor.
Of the 198 corporators in the civic body the BJP has 100 Congress 75 JD-S 15 and there are eight Independents.
--IANS bha-fb/mag/mr
Gangambike Mallikarjun of the Congress was declared elected as Bengaluru s 52nd Mayor by 130 votes Regional Commissioner Shivayogi Kalasad said.
Gangambike s opponent was the Bharatiya Janata Party s Shobha Anjanappa but the party did not take part in the election.
Even though the BJP has more corporators a pre-poll tie-up between the ruling Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) and Congress denied it the coveted mayoral post for a second consecutive year.
Alleging that the Congress and JD-S alliance had "hijacked" Independent corporators who offered support to the BJP its legislators and corporators staged a walkout.
JD-S corporator Ramila Umashankar was elected the Deputy Mayor.
Of the 198 corporators in the civic body the BJP has 100 Congress 75 JD-S 15 and there are eight Independents.
--IANS bha-fb/mag/mr
