Dharamsala, Mandi top posts in BJP kitty

ibune News Service

Dharamsala, April 13

The BJP today grabbed the posts of both Mayor and Deputy Mayor of the Dharamsala Municipal Corporation (MC). Interestingly, BJP councillor Onkar Nehria was unanimously elected as Mayor as the Congress did not contest the election against him. Onkar is the former Deputy Mayor of Dharamsala and won from McLeodganj.

Sarav Chand Galotia, a BJP rebel, who had won as an Independent from the Sidhpur ward, was elected as Deputy Mayor. Former Mayor Davinder Jaggi filed his nomination for the post of Deputy Mayor but got just six votes whereas Galotia got 11 votes.

The BJP had won eight out of 17 wards in the Dharamsala MC elections whereas the Congress had won five wards. Four Independents, two Congress rebels and two BJP rebels, had also won.

CM Jai Ram Thakur, who was here, congratulated the newly elected Mayor and Deputy Mayor. He expressed hope that various development projects that had been lingering in the city would pick pace soon under the newly elected House. The newly elected members of the MC were administered oath by the Deputy Commissioner Rakesh Prajapati.