Congress’ Madhu Sood is Shimla mayor
December 6th, 2009 - 1:11 am ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )
Shimla, Dec 5 (IANS) Madhu Sood of the Congress was Saturday elected mayor of the Shimla Municipal Corporation, a day after the divided Congress councillors failed to come to a consensus over the names of the mayor and deputy mayor.
In the 25-member house, the Congress has 15 councillors, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) have eight and two councillors respectively.
Himachal Pradesh Congress chief Kaul Singh Thakur told reporters that Madhu Sood has been elected as mayor, while Harish Janartha was re-elected as the deputy mayor for a second term.
Interestingly, the Congress councillors failed to arrive at a consensus over their candidates for both the posts Friday and boycotted the proceedings of the house. As a result, the election could not be held as the house fell short of a quorum.
In the election too, a sharp division within the Congress came to the fore. The councillors were divided in two groups - one backed by Congress Legislative Party leader Vidya Stokes and the other by Union Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh.
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