Elections for the post of mayor and deputy mayor of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) are held on Thursday and TRS party’s Gadwal Vijaya Lakshmi has elected as GHMC Mayor while Mothe Srilatha Sobhan Reddy from the TRS has occupied the chair as Deputy Mayor of GHMC. The MIM supported both the TRS nominees. The term of the present council of GHMC had expired on February 10.
The TRS had emerged as the single-largest party with 56 seats while BJP bagged 47 seats to become the second-largest party. AIMIM got 44 seats and the Congress Party managed to win only two seats. The results of the 150-seat GHMC were announced in December 2020.
A total of 181 people voted to elect the new GHMC mayor and deputy mayor which includes 149 corporators and 32 ex-officio members. The TRS had 32 ex-officio members while the BJP had 2 ex-officio seats. Congress corporators walked out ahead of voting for GHMC mayor post.