The Hindu               05.09.2013

Sathyanarayana is new Mayor

Staff Reporter

Basavanagudi councillor B.S. Sathyanarayana and Byatarayanapura councillor Indira were unanimously elected the city’s 47th Mayor and 48th Deputy Mayor respectively on Wednesday. Mr. Sathyanarayana was the only councillor who filed his nomination papers for the Mayor’s post. category. The Deputy Mayor’s post was reserved for the Scheduled Tribes (woman) category and as the only councillor in the BBMP council belonging to that category, Ms. Indira’s election to the post was also not contested.