Newly elected Mayor meets BSY

Bengaluru: Newly elected BBMP Mayor M Gowtham Kumar and Deputy Mayor Ram Mohan Raju met Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Wednesday to seek his blessing and help to develop the city.

Delighted over BJP wresting power in Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa said that it would help his party expose the scams in BBMP.

Yediyurappa said that the opposition tried their best to postpone the Mayoral elections, however, it was good for the BJP that it was finally held.

BJP corporator M Gowtham Kumar was elected as Bengaluru Mayor on Tuesday defeating Congress nominee R S Sathyanarayana.

Kumar, who represents Jogupalya ward, secured 129 votes as against Sathyanarayana (Dattatreya Temple ward) who got 112 in a 249-vote electoral college, which comprise city corporators, Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha members, MLAs and the MLCs from Bengaluru.

Despite emerging as the single largest party in the BBMP (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike) council in 2015 by winning 101 seats out of 198 seats, the party was not able to get the post of mayor or deputy mayor as it fell short on numbers in the electoral college.