Hyderabad: TRS Corporators G. Vijaya Lakshmi elected as GHMC Mayor and M. Srilatha Reddy as Deputy Mayor on Thursday. The BJP candidate Radha Dheeraj Reddy contested for the post of Mayor, but not succeeded.

The TRS won 56 Corporators, BJP won 48 and MIM won 44 in the recent GHMC elections. No party has got clear majority to elect candidate for the Mayor seat. But the TRS having 32 Ex- Officio members, MIM have 10 Ex- Officio members and BJP have two Ex-Officio members. At the last minute MIM candidates supported TRS candidates to win Mayor and Deputy Mayor posts. Soon after the election, MIM president Asaduddin Owaisi in a tweet  “he appreciated TRS for offering us Deputy Mayor’s post,” indicating that though the TRS had offered the post to the party, he declined it.

BJP leaders cried foul over the ‘nexus between MIM and TRS’ in the GHMC Mayor Elections, TRS took the support of the former to get its candidates voted to the top posts of the civic body. The new Mayor of Hyderabad is G Vijaya Lakshmi, the daughter of TRS Secretary-General K Keshava Rao, and the Deputy Mayor is M Srilatha Reddy. Interestingly, The TRS and MIM had fought the GHMC election as political rivals, with the former’s Working President KT Rama Rao even wanting the people to defeat the latter’s candidates.

In another tweet Owaisi said that “ he hope that public works will be actively taken up in areas that need them the most, including Old City of Hyderabad. I hope that GHMC will carry out its works with honesty & financial propriety. Also appreciate TRS for offering us Deputy Mayor’s post”.

The Chief Minister KCR directed the Mayor and Dy. Mayor to work hard towards enhancing Hyderabad’s image. When Vijaya Lakshmi and Srilatha Reddy called on K Chandrasekhar Rao at Pragathi Bhavan later in the day, “These are testing times wherein even if you are good, charges are levelled against you. Even if you relax for a while, you will earn a bad name. Hence, act with caution,” he told them.

KCR advised them to read the poem, ‘Galli Chinnadi Garibolla Katha Peddadi’ (the street is narrow but the problems of the poor living in it are huge), penned by Gorati Venkanna. “Mayors and Corporators should visit bastis, understand the plight of the people there, come to the rescue of the poor. This should be your aim and objective. The government will launch programmes to develop Hyderabad. Support them and cooperate with them,” KCR told them.