The Pioneer 09.05.2013
Anand Dev elected vice chairman municipal council
Anand Dev, the councilor of ward no- 13, has won the election of vice chairman of Hazaribagh Municipal Council. It was a direct and close fight for the chair between Anand Dev and Kamal Gope in which Anand won the chair by a margin of one vote.
In the race for the chair of Vice Chairman of Municipal Council only two candidates came into fray finally. Anand Dev of ward 13 and Kameshwar alias Kamal Gope of ward 14. All others who were said to be in the race finally opted to not file nomination paper on the penultimate day.
Earlier the oath ceremony of newly elected chairman and ward councilors started in the meeting hall of district collectorate. DC Dr. Manish Ranjan gave them oath and then the process of election of Vice Chairman started. At 11:30 am the voting started and 30 councilors casted their votes. The ward councilors of ward 20 and 27 namely Sunita Devi and
Sudipto Chatterjee refused to cast their votes. Yesterday Sunita Devi has announced her decision of boycott in a PC saying that she is against use of money power so neither she will fight the election nor vote.
Some councilors who don’t want their names to be published on this issue said clearly to this newsman that yesterday this battle changed into old vs. new councilor. Since Kameshwar alias Kamal Gope is a first timer so the old councilors first convinced Anjay Paswan, who was a serious candidate and then stood firmly behind Anand Dev.
This last hour development changed the scenario, instead of four only two candidates entered into the ring. One old and one new councilor boycotted the poll and one vote was rejected which helped Anand to get the chair finally.
