3-time BJP councillor Sudheer Shetty Kannur elected Mayor of Mangaluru
The Hindu
The Karnataka government had reserved the office of the Mayor for general category while the office of Deputy Mayor was reserved for Scheduled Caste (woman)
Three-time BJP councillor Sudheer Shetty Kannur was elected the new Mayor of Mangaluru in the election conducted on September 8. First-time councillor Sunitha (BJP) was elected unopposed as the new Deputy Mayor.
Mr. Kannur defeated Congress candidate Naveen R. D’Souza, who was the Leader of Opposition, by a margin of 33 votes. Mr. Kannur secured 47 votes and Mr. D’Souza got 14 votes.
In the 60-member elected council, the BJP has 44 seats, followed by the Congress with 14 seats and the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) with two seats.
Two BJP MLAs – D. Vedavyasa Kamath from Mangaluru City South and Y. Bharat Shetty from Mangaluru City North – and Dakshina Kannada Member of Parliament Nalin Kumar Kateel (BJP) and Congress MLC Manjunath Bhandary enjoy voting rights for the mayoral election as they are voters in the jurisdiction of Mangaluru City Corporation.
In addition to the 44 votes of BJP councillors, Mr. Kannur secured three votes of two MLAs and an MP.
Mr. Bhandary did not turn up for the election. Hence, the Congress candidate got 14 votes of the party’s councillors. The two councillors of the SDPI remained neutral.
Mr. Kannur was elected on November 12, 2019 from Kodialbail ward (No. 30 – Mangaluru City South Assembly constituency). Earlier, he had been elected to the council twice consecutively from Kannur ward (No. 52), also in Mangaluru City South. He is general secretary of the Dakshina Kannada district unit of the BJP. He was an active RSS worker.
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