The Hindu 07.06.2013
GHMC standing panel poll held
All the official candidates of the Congress and Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), eight and seven corporators respectively, were elected to the GHMC standing committee in the poll conducted at the head office on Thursday.
GHMC’s 150 corporators of the council are eligible to participate in the voting and there were altogether 18 candidates in the fray for the 15-member panel, including one TD corporator, a BJP corporator and another, a dummy Congress candidate.
TD corporator Bhanu Prasad got 67 votes while BJP’s Sahadev got 35 votes indicating that there was cross-voting in the second preference votes even if it did not affect the final outcome. The newly-elected members will be part of the standing committee which is presided over by Mayor Majid Hussain for a one-year period.
