CPI(M)’s Anilkumar is Kochi Mayor
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Close coordination with district administration and waste management are the focus, he says.
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Close coordination with district administration and waste management are the focus, he says. M. Anilkumar of the CPI(M) was elected Mayor of the Kochi corporation on Monday, bringing an LDF candidate back to the chair after a ten-year hiatus.
Mr. Anilkumar secured 36 votes, defeating the UDF candidate Antony Kureethara who secured 32 votes. The councillors toed their respective party lines, with the Independent candidates sticking to the allegiances they had promised earlier. K. P. Antony, councillor from Manassery, who had contested as an independent candidate, abstained from voting.