BHUBANESWAR:
Finally, Ananta Narayan Jena got a second chance to serve as Mayor of the
Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC). Ending all speculations about introduction
of new faces, Jena was elected uncontested
on Friday. It was announced by BMC administrator Sanjib Mishra at the BMC
office here.
Earlier on the day, BJD president
and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had announced Jena’s
name as the party’s candidate for the mayor election. Even a party meeting was
held on Thursday evening at Naveen Niwas to finalise the contender’s name for
the coveted post.
According to reports, Jena
was the only corporator to file nomination papers for the Mayor post. When
nobody filed nomination against Jena,
he was elected unopposed, said the official sources.
During the last eight days, names
of five corporators were coming to the discussion for the Mayor’s post. Out of
the five, Jena had enough chances
to win the election as he was an experienced and popular among his fellow
corporators. Jena’s strength was
that he won by the highest margin of over 4,300 votes and a former Mayor of the
BMC.
Among others, three-time
corporator Sk Nizamuddin, two-time corporator Amaresh Jena, Health Minister’s
daughter Preetinanda Routray and Mahamaya Swain were in top of the contender’s
list.
Notably, BJD has
won 49 seats out of 67-member civic body council in the BMC polls which was
conducted on January 8 this year.
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