GHMC polls: Hat-trick victory for 5 contestants

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Updated: Dec 6, 2020, 08:09 IST

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For some, winning elections seems to have become a habit. In the results declared for GHMC polls on Friday, five contestants scored a hat-trick — three from TRS and two from MIM. If that in itself is a record of sorts, three other contestants won for the fourth time, to get the tag ‘most senior’ in the GHMC council.

GHMC polls: Hat-trick victory for 5 contestants

Mustafa Baig

HYDERABAD: For some, winning elections seems to have become a habit. In the results declared for GHMC polls on Friday, five contestants scored a hat-trick — three from TRS and two from MIM. If that in itself is a record of sorts, three other contestants won for the fourth time, to get the tag ‘most senior’ in the GHMC council.
Those who won for four times are Riyasatnagar division’s MIM candidate Mustafa Baig, who had won in 2002, 2009, 2016 and 2020, Ramnaspuram division’s MIM candidate Mohd Mubeen, who won for the first time in 2002 from Aghapura, and again from 2009 and 2016 from the same place.

This time, he won from Shastripuram.
Begum Bazar division’s Gonti Shankar Yadav of BJP won in 2002 and 2009 as a Congress candidate and as BJP candidate in 2016 and now. “My habit every day early morning is to go around my division and be available to the people. I ensured that all government benefits reached the beneficiaries,” Mirza Mustafa Baig told TOI on Saturday.
The celebrations were big in Old Bowenpally division as TRS’s Muddam Narsimha Yadav won for the third time in a row. “I did not intend to come into public service. But during 2007 and 2009, I was actively involved in protecting parks from being encroached upon and representing to the authorities to lay roads. I did this because the local public told me the elected representatives were not doing what they were requesting them to repeatedly,” Narasimha Yadav recalled.

Getting into electoral politics was therefore a natural offshoot and he got elected from Old Bowenpally division three times in a row. “When you serve people and then seek votes, they stand with you. This time, I want a lake in my area to be developed as a mini Tank Bund for which the money has already been sanctioned,” he told TOI. Former mayor Majid Hussain is among those who have scored a hat-trick. Majid Hussain won from Ahmednagar division in 2009 and became mayor. He got elected from Mehdipatnam division in 2016 and now again.
Akbarbagh division’s Sayyed Meenzuddin of MIM won in 2009, 2016 and now and Ravula Seshagiri has won from Gajularamaram as a TRS candidate, like he had won in 2016. Prior to that, he had won as a Congress candidate in 2009.
In Maccha Bolarum division, ES Raj Jitendernath has also won for the third time.

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Ch Sushil Rao

Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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