The members who won elections to the urban local bodies held on 19 February in Tamil Nadu took oath on 2 March. Municipal commissioners administered the oath of office in corporations, municipal commissioners administered the oath of office in municipalities and executive officers administered the oath in panchayats across Tamil Nadu.
Accordingly, the inauguration ceremony of the ward members of the ‘traditional’ Chennai Corporation was held after 11 years at the Ripon Building on March 2. Corporation commissioner Gagandeep Singh Bedi administered the oath of office to the council members.
Many interesting events took place during the inauguration ceremony, along with promises to suit the parties. When the councilors took over, they thanked the party, family members, Vice Chancellor and accepted the post. Some took office by paying tribute to various leaders and singing songs.
As the most surprising part, for the first time, women held a majority role over men in the council. While the DMK government led by MK Stalin took over governance in Tamil Nadu after a decade last year, several welfare announcements were made and as such, half the wards in Chennai were reserved for women. While 100 wards out of 200 wards were reserved for women, including 16 for women from the Scheduled Caste community, an independent woman candidate from a general ward made it to 101 women in the council. Priyadarshini, a 21-year-old Communist Party member of the 98th ward, a youth council member and 31-year-old pregnant councilor Durga Devi took oath.
After this, indirect election for the post of mayor is to be held on the morning of March 4, while the election of deputy mayor is to be held on the same afternoon. With the victory of DMK in all the 21 corporations, the candidates for the post of mayor have been announced today. Of these, 20 mayoral candidates have been declared, 19 are for DMK and 1 mayoral candidate has been declared as member of Congress party. For Chennai Corporation, 28-year-old R Priya has been announced as DMK’s mayoral candidate and M Mahesh Kumar as deputy mayor candidate. While K Saravanan has been made the candidate for the post of Mayor of Kumbakonam Corporation from the Congress side.
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