CPI’s M. Ganesh elected as Kothagudem Mayor

The CPI’s M. Ganesh and the Congress’s S. Lalitha Kumari person been unanimously elected arsenic the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of the Kothagudem Municipal Corporation (KMC) respectively.

The CPI and the Congress entered a ‘power-sharing agreement’ for the KMC pursuing a hung council.

As per the agreement, the CPI volition clasp the mayor’s station for the archetypal two-and-a-half-years and the Congress volition presume the station successful the remaining play of the five-year term, according to CPI sources.

The CPI and the Congress had won 22 divisions each successful the keenly fought predetermination for the 60-member Kothagudem Municipal Corporation. The BRS had won 8 divisions.

In Peddapalli district, the Congress wrested the Ramagundam Municipal Corporation wherever its campaigner Mahankali Swamy was unanimously elected arsenic the Mayor of the civic body.