<p>The BJP, which is yet to recover from the terrible rout in the Assembly elections, may lose the mayoral post in Bangalore to the Congress.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The mayoral election was supposed to be held before April 26, but due to the Assembly elections and a High Court order to reserve either the post of mayor or deputy mayor for Scheduled Tribes (STs), the BBMP had put off the election for about a fortnight. <br /><br />The ruling BJP in the BBMP Council may now be compelled to offer the mayoral post to the Congress as it does not have a single ST member among the 110 corporators, while the Congress has two ST corporators, Indira from Byatarayanapura and Lokesh from Neelasandra.<br /><br />A party in majority in the BBMP Council having mayor from another party is not something new. In 1997, K H N Simha belonging to the Congress became the Mayor, although the JD(S) was in majority in the erstwhile Bangalore Mahanagara Palike.<br /><br />As the political dynamics have changed in the State, BBMP officials want to delay the process for a few days on the pretext of 'more clarity'.<br /><br />A Palike official said, “We want more clarity from the government on whether the mayor or the deputy mayor should be a Scheduled Tribe member.”</p>
<p>The BJP, which is yet to recover from the terrible rout in the Assembly elections, may lose the mayoral post in Bangalore to the Congress.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The mayoral election was supposed to be held before April 26, but due to the Assembly elections and a High Court order to reserve either the post of mayor or deputy mayor for Scheduled Tribes (STs), the BBMP had put off the election for about a fortnight. <br /><br />The ruling BJP in the BBMP Council may now be compelled to offer the mayoral post to the Congress as it does not have a single ST member among the 110 corporators, while the Congress has two ST corporators, Indira from Byatarayanapura and Lokesh from Neelasandra.<br /><br />A party in majority in the BBMP Council having mayor from another party is not something new. In 1997, K H N Simha belonging to the Congress became the Mayor, although the JD(S) was in majority in the erstwhile Bangalore Mahanagara Palike.<br /><br />As the political dynamics have changed in the State, BBMP officials want to delay the process for a few days on the pretext of 'more clarity'.<br /><br />A Palike official said, “We want more clarity from the government on whether the mayor or the deputy mayor should be a Scheduled Tribe member.”</p>
