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.