Congress woman elected Bengaluru mayor

BENGALURU: Congress woman corporator Gangambike Mallikarjun was on Friday elected Mayor of the Bengaluru’s municipal corporation after the BJP walked out of the civic POLL, SAID AN OFICIAL.

Gangambike was declared elected as Bengaluru’s 52nd Mayor by 130 votes, which is the required majority, Regional Commissioner Shivayogi Kalasad said.

Her opponent was the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Shobha Anjanappa but the party’s corporators did not take part in the election. Gangambike, 40, represents the upscale Jayananagar ward and Shobha is from Padmanabhanagar ward in the city’s southern suburb.

Bengaluru, a city of 11 million people, is India’s IT capital.

“I am grateful to all those who voted for me and thank the party leaders for believing in me. I look forward to taking up the city’s responsibility. Tackling rubbish crisis is my priority,” the beaming Mayor told reporters.

Janata Dal-secular (JD-S) woman corporator Ramila Umashankar from Kaveripura ward in the western suburb was elected the deputy mayor. she defeated Bjp’ s pr atibhadh an ra j from nay and a hall i ward in the southwest suburb.

Even though the BJP has more corporators (100) in the 198 civic wards across the city, a pre-poll alliance between the ruling Congress and the Janata Dalsecular (JD-S) in the corporation denied it the coveted mayoral post for a second consecutive year. Of the 198 corporators in the greater civic body, the BJP has 100, Congress 75 and JD-S 15 and there are eight independents.

In addition to 198 corporators, 5 Lok S ab ha members and 9 from the rajy as ab ha and 28 of the assembly and 19 of the council in the state legislature representing the city constitute the 259-member electorate for the mayoral election every year.