The Hindu 13.03.2013
HDMC council has a lot of new faces
The newly elected council of the Hubli Dharwad Municipal
Corporation has a lot of young faces this time, with most of them
entering the council for the first time.
Along with
senior councillors such as Pandurang Patil, Deepak Chinchore and D.K.
Chavan, there are 28 candidates who have made it to the municipal
council for the first time.
Of the 24 councillors
from Dharwad, 13 have been elected to the municipal council for the
first time, while in Hubli, of the 43 councillors 16 are new faces. What
is more significant is that several of them defeated former
councillors.
While the Bharatiya Janata Party’s
Anasuya Cholappanavar defeated the former councillor Rasulbi R.
Doddamani of the Congress, Bibi Fathima Pathan of the Congress defeated
Sheela V. Anchatageri, wife of the former councillor Iresh Anchatageri
of the BJP. The BJP’s Nirmala Shivanand Javali defeated the former
councillor Saroja B. Patil of the Janata Dal (Secular).
Similarly,
the former councillors Prakash Ghatge (Congress) and Prakash Godbole
(BJP) were defeated by first-timers Shankar T. Shelake (BJP) and Raju
Shankar Rao Ambore (JD-S) respectively.
However, it
was Congress candidates Shaila Venkaraddi Kamaraddi and Baseer Ahmed
Gudmal who disappointed the BJP by defeating two-time Deputy Mayor
Bharati Patil and the former Mayor Radhabai N. Sapare respectively.
Another defeat for the BJP was that of Shanthappa Devakki, who was
defeated by first-timer and BJP rebel Mallikarjun Ajjappa Horakeri. The
former Deputy Mayor Chandrashekhar Managundi (BJP) was also defeated by
first-timer Kariyappa K. Beesagal (Congress).
While
Beerappa N. Khandekar (BJP) defeated the former BJP councillor (now with
the KJP) Hoovappa Dayagodi, Abdul Wahab Mulla (Congress) defeated the
former Mayor Venkatesh Mestri, who has now joined the KJP.
The
BJP has the highest number of newcomers. Of the 33 newly elected
councillors, 50 per cent are first-timers. Of the 22 Congress members, 9
are newcomers. The JD(S) too has three new faces. The two independent
candidates Mallikarjun Horakeri and Muktum Hussain Yaragatti are also
newcomers.
