Updated Feb 11, 2021 | 06:26 IST
Buoyed by its performance in GHMC polls, the BJP has also decided to put up its candidates for both Mayor and Deputy Mayor posts. TRS is likely to grab both the positions
Hyderabad: Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, which saw a high-octane electoral fight between ruling TRS and BJP in December last year, will be elected on Thursday.
In the election notification, the Telangana State Election Commission said that the election will be held at 12.30 pm on February 11 and an hour earlier all the 150 corporators would be administered the oath. State election commissioner C Partha Sarathi also said that if for any reason the elections are not held on February 11, it will be postponed to the next day.
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], February 11 (ANI): Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) candidate Gadwal Vijayalaxmi of ward number 93, Banjara Hills, elected as the new Mayor of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) on Thursday.
Who Is Hyderabad 17th Woman Mayor, Gadwal Vijayalakshmi Feb 11, 2021, 17:54 IST
Gadwal Vijayalakshmi, Fourth Woman Mayor Of Hyderabad: Gadwal Vijayalakshmi who was elected as the 17th Mayor of Hyderabad in 2021, joins the elite list of Sarojini Pulla Reddy, Rani Kumudini Devi, Banda Karthika Reddy who earlier served as woman Mayors of Hyderabad and is the fourth woman Mayor of Hyderabad.
1. 1962-63 - Rani Kumudini Devi
2. 1965-66 - Sarojini Pulla Reddy.
3.1968-69 - Mrs. B.Kumud Nayak
4. 2021 - Gadwal Vijayalakshmi
Deputy Mayor
Apart from her, Mothe Srilatha Reddy was elected as the first woman Deputy Mayor of the GHMC council and in a first of its sorts, GHMC has two women leading the helm of affairs in the city. Prior to Srilatha Reddy there were two women Deputy Mayors in Hyderabad.