Hope New Mayor Will Develop Hyderabad Well: Owaisi Feb 11, 2021, 15:06 IST
Hyderabad: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi congratulated the newly elected Mayor & Deputy Mayor of GHMC. The GHMC elections are over and the results are out and the Mayor and Deputy Mayor-elect have been named. TRS drew the majority and its candidates won. However, despite having the majority TRS named the Deputy Mayor-elect from Owaisi s party.
Banjara Hills Corporator, Gadwal Vijay Laxmi has been elected as the GHMC Mayor, and Mothe Sri Latha Reddy, Tarnaka ward Corporator has been elected as the Deputy Mayor.
Congratulating both of them on their win Owaisi said, Congratulations to the newly elected Mayor & Deputy Mayor of GHMC. Hope that, under their leadership, Hyderabad will be taken to new heights and public works will be actively taken up in areas that need them the most, including Old City of Hyderabad.
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.
Who Is Hyderabad 17th Woman Mayor, Gadwal Vijayalakshmi Feb 11, 2021, 17:54 IST
Gadwal Vijayalakshmi, Fourth Woman Mayor Of Hyderabad: Gadwal Vijayalakshmi who was elected as the 17th Mayor of Hyderabad in 2021, joins the elite list of Sarojini Pulla Reddy, Rani Kumudini Devi, Banda Karthika Reddy who earlier served as woman Mayors of Hyderabad and is the fourth woman Mayor of Hyderabad.
1. 1962-63 - Rani Kumudini Devi
2. 1965-66 - Sarojini Pulla Reddy.
3.1968-69 - Mrs. B.Kumud Nayak
4. 2021 - Gadwal Vijayalakshmi
Deputy Mayor
Apart from her, Mothe Srilatha Reddy was elected as the first woman Deputy Mayor of the GHMC council and in a first of its sorts, GHMC has two women leading the helm of affairs in the city. Prior to Srilatha Reddy there were two women Deputy Mayors in Hyderabad.
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