Telangana: TRS bags mayor, deputy posts in Karimnagar

HYDERABAD: The ruling TRS scored a perfect 10 by securing all the 10 municipal corporation chief posts. The party on Wednesday bagged both mayor and deputy mayor posts in Karimnagar municipal corporation. TRS candidate Y Sunil Rao was elected mayor, while Challa Swaroopa Rani as deputy mayor.
The indirect elections to municipal corporation chief posts were held on January 27 and 29. Of the 60 divisions in KMC, TRS got 33, BJP 13 and MIM seven.In seven divisions, Independents emerged victorious. TRS got a shot in the arm on Tuesday with all the Independents joining the party. With the help of seven Independents and MIM corporators who were elected, TRS did not require ex-officio members’ support. Soon after the new corporators were sworn in, the 13 BJP corporators walked out even as the process for election of mayor and deputy mayor began.