Belagavi: The Belagavi City Corporation were given its first Kannada-speaking mayor in 5 years after Basappa Chikkaldinni was declared elected unopposed on Thursday. His deputy is Madhushri Pujari, from the Marathi team.
The 58-member company is broadly divided into two linguistic teams with none political affiliations. The Kannada team’s candidate received the elections because the mayor’s submit had been reserved for an ST candidate, and the Marathi team didn’t have one on its side. Hence, the election was and not using a contest.
As quickly as the mayoral election procedure began round 10am Thursday, Basappa Chikkaldinni (form ward 55) was the only one to report the nomination papers for the submit of mayor. For the deputy’s submit, 3 applicants from the Marathi team — Madhushri Appasaheb Pujari (ward 13), Minaxi Chigare (ward 48) and Megha Dilip Haladankar (ward 26) — and Shanta Uppar (ward 54) from the Kannada entity filed the papers.
Megha and Minaxi withdrew their nominations and prolonged their enhance to Madhushri Pujari, who defeated Shanta 31-23.
Besides council individuals, 4 MLAs and two MPs were eligible to vote within the mayoral polls. Since councillor Bhairgouda Balagouda Patil (ward 57) was facing a court docket case for allegedly generating fake documents during his election as a council member, his balloting right had been withdrawn. One councillor, 3 MLAs and two MPS didn’t turn as much as vote within the polls.
Regional commissioner PA Haladankar conducted the elections. Belagavi commissioner Shashidhar Kurer accompanied him.
After his election, Basappa Chikkaldinni expressed happiness and thanked the Jarkiholi brothers, particularly Sathish, for their enhance, and vowed to make town “extra beautiful and clean”.
Before the ballot procedure began, councillor Pandhari Parab and MLA Sambhaji Patil had advised the government to conduct the court cases in Hindi as many didn’t perceive Kannada. But Kannada individuals Ramesh Sontakki and Sarala Herekar objected to this request. The election officer said elections can be held in Kannada as that’s the executive language of Karnataka.
The 58-member company is broadly divided into two linguistic teams with none political affiliations. The Kannada team’s candidate received the elections because the mayor’s submit had been reserved for an ST candidate, and the Marathi team didn’t have one on its side. Hence, the election was and not using a contest.
As quickly as the mayoral election procedure began round 10am Thursday, Basappa Chikkaldinni (form ward 55) was the only one to report the nomination papers for the submit of mayor. For the deputy’s submit, 3 applicants from the Marathi team — Madhushri Appasaheb Pujari (ward 13), Minaxi Chigare (ward 48) and Megha Dilip Haladankar (ward 26) — and Shanta Uppar (ward 54) from the Kannada entity filed the papers.
Megha and Minaxi withdrew their nominations and prolonged their enhance to Madhushri Pujari, who defeated Shanta 31-23.
Besides council individuals, 4 MLAs and two MPs were eligible to vote within the mayoral polls. Since councillor Bhairgouda Balagouda Patil (ward 57) was facing a court docket case for allegedly generating fake documents during his election as a council member, his balloting right had been withdrawn. One councillor, 3 MLAs and two MPS didn’t turn as much as vote within the polls.
Regional commissioner PA Haladankar conducted the elections. Belagavi commissioner Shashidhar Kurer accompanied him.
After his election, Basappa Chikkaldinni expressed happiness and thanked the Jarkiholi brothers, particularly Sathish, for their enhance, and vowed to make town “extra beautiful and clean”.
Before the ballot procedure began, councillor Pandhari Parab and MLA Sambhaji Patil had advised the government to conduct the court cases in Hindi as many didn’t perceive Kannada. But Kannada individuals Ramesh Sontakki and Sarala Herekar objected to this request. The election officer said elections can be held in Kannada as that’s the executive language of Karnataka.
Belagavi gets 1st Kannada mayor in 5 yrs
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