MANGALURU: Chithrakala Chandrakanth and Ayub Manchila from the Congress have been elected as the president and vice-president of the Ullal City Municipal Council.
to Ullal CMC, which has been a Congress bastion for three decades, was held on August 31, 2018. Out of the 31 wards, Congress had bagged 13 seats, BJP and SDPI had won six seats each, JD(S) secured four and independent candidates won two seats. However, election to the posts of president and vice-president were not conducted due to litigations regarding reservations. As per a court direction, the post of president was reserved for general woman category and vice-president’s post for general category.
Assistant commissioner Ravichandra Nayak conducted the process of the election held on Monday. Congress bagged a majority with the support of 13 elected members of the party, Mangaluru MLA UT Khader and an independent.