Madan Bhargad elected Mayor in AMC

Saturday, March 17, 2007, 12:22 [IST]

Akola, Mar 6 (UNI) The newly elected Congress corporator and city Congress chief Madan Bhargad was today elected Mayor of Akola Municipal Corporation (AMC), defeating former BJP Mayor Sumantai Gawande by a margin of 25 votes.

In the 71 member Akola Municipal Corporation, Bhargad secured 43 votes while his BJP rival Mrs Gawande got 18 votes, while the 10 member BRP-BMS group remained neutral.

Nikhilesh Divekar, newly elected NCP corporator and son of late Arun Divekar, former minister, was elected Deputy Mayor.

He got 43 votes, Prabhawati Jadhav (Shiv sena) and Abdul Raut of (BRPBMS) got only 18 and 10 votes, respectively.

The party wise strength is - Congress-19, NCP-11 BJP-11, Shiv sena-7, BRP-BMS-10, SP and LJP-2 each, AHS and DSP and Muslim league each-1 and MNS-1 and Independents 5.

UNI

Topics: ELECTION-AMC-MAYOR

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