Gadwal Vijay Laxmi is daughter of TRS MP Keshav Rao.
HYDERABAD: Banjara Hills corporator, Gadwal Vijayalakshmi who is the daughter of TRS MP Keshav Rao, has been elected as city mayor and Mothe Sri Latha Reddy, Tarnaka ward corporator, has been elected as deputy mayor.
Apart from ex-officio members, a total of 149 corporators participated in the meeting. TRS party proposed one name mayor and deputy mayor posts each.
BJP had also fielded Radha Krishna (corporator from RK Puram ward) as its mayor candidate but she got only 48 votes.
The election was held by show of hands. After counting of votes, Hyderabad district collector Sweta Mohanty, who was the presiding officer for the mayoral election for Greater Hyderabad, declared the winner after counting the votes.