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| Pinka to be Congress candidate for Mayor's post | | On CM's suggestion, secret ballot decided candidature | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 27
The Congress party today decided to field Manmohan Singh Pinka as its candidate for the upcoming election to the post of Mayor for Jammu Municipal Corporation.
The candidature of Pinka was decided through secret ballot proposed by the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad who was earlier authorised by corporators to nominate a candidate for the post.
The Chief Minister, however, declined to nominate the candidate and insisted that democratic process of ballot be adopted. He said for him all corporators were equal and he would like them to throw up a candidate by casting votes in a democratic way.
Manmohan Singh Pinka emerged as the winner by securing a majority vote.
The meeting for choosing the party candidate for the post of Mayor was attended by corporators of the Congress and its associate and independent members. Minister for Health & Medical Education, Mangat Ram Sharma, Minister for Rural Development, Mula Ram, Minister for Higher Education, Gulchain Singh Charak, Deputy Chairman, Legislative Council, Arvinder Singh, Advisor to Chief Minister, Janak Raj Gupta, legislators, Raman Bhalla and Yogesh Sawhney and Mayor, JMC, Narinder Singh were present.
Earlier, the Chief Minister asked the corporators to demonstrate unity at the time of election like they had done during the past two years, resulting in the two consecutive victories of the Congress candidates for the Mayoral post. He said associate and independent members had played pivotal role in the victories and urged them to work in unison to ensure smooth sailing of the Congress party candidate this time also.
The Chief Minister said that he was for extending the term of office of Mayor from the current one year to two or three years. However, he said since it could not materialize due to the lack of consensus among coalition parties, he would work towards changing the existing law in the coming years to ensure that a Mayor's term of office was increased to two or three years. Likewise, he said, the term of the Corporation could also be extended to six years, as in the case of State Assembly. |
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