<p align="justify">The Congress is likely to retain the mayor’s post with the JD(S) on Thursday agreeing to continue the alliance in the BBMP Council.<br /><br />The parties, however, are yet to finalise the power-sharing agreement. Though Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy held talks with JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy, they could not arrive at a conclusion. The mayoral election is scheduled for September 28.<br /><br />The JD(S) did some tough bargaining. The party has demanded five posts of standing committee chairman, instead of the existing four.<br /><br />And the party wants lucrative standing committees such as taxation and finance, in addition to four other important committees of town planning and improvement, major public works, establishment & administrative reforms and public health. This is over and above the post of deputy mayor.<br /><br />A source in the JD(S) said that Kumaraswamy also demanded the Congress to increase funds for the deputy mayor.</p>.<p align="justify">He wants the funds to be increased from Rs 50 crore to Rs 150 crore and allocate more funds for development of wards represented by party corporaters.<br /><br />Reddy told reporters that the alliance will continue. “A decision (on sharing of power) will be taken after discussing with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and KPCC president G Parameshwara,” he added.<br /><br />While the post of mayor is reserved for an SC candidate, the deputy mayor post can be held by a woman from the general category.<br /><br />From the Congress, Devarajeevanahalli councillor R Sampath Raj and Subhash Nagar councillor L Govindaraju are in the race for the mayor’s post.<br /><br />Of the JD(S)’s eight women corporators, four are eyeing the deputy mayor’s post. They are Ramila Umashankar (Kaveripura), Netra Narayan (Kaval Byrasandra), Padmavathi Narasimhamurthy (Rajagopalnagar) and Umme Salma (Kushalnagar).<br /> </p>
<p align="justify">The Congress is likely to retain the mayor’s post with the JD(S) on Thursday agreeing to continue the alliance in the BBMP Council.<br /><br />The parties, however, are yet to finalise the power-sharing agreement. Though Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy held talks with JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy, they could not arrive at a conclusion. The mayoral election is scheduled for September 28.<br /><br />The JD(S) did some tough bargaining. The party has demanded five posts of standing committee chairman, instead of the existing four.<br /><br />And the party wants lucrative standing committees such as taxation and finance, in addition to four other important committees of town planning and improvement, major public works, establishment & administrative reforms and public health. This is over and above the post of deputy mayor.<br /><br />A source in the JD(S) said that Kumaraswamy also demanded the Congress to increase funds for the deputy mayor.</p>.<p align="justify">He wants the funds to be increased from Rs 50 crore to Rs 150 crore and allocate more funds for development of wards represented by party corporaters.<br /><br />Reddy told reporters that the alliance will continue. “A decision (on sharing of power) will be taken after discussing with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and KPCC president G Parameshwara,” he added.<br /><br />While the post of mayor is reserved for an SC candidate, the deputy mayor post can be held by a woman from the general category.<br /><br />From the Congress, Devarajeevanahalli councillor R Sampath Raj and Subhash Nagar councillor L Govindaraju are in the race for the mayor’s post.<br /><br />Of the JD(S)’s eight women corporators, four are eyeing the deputy mayor’s post. They are Ramila Umashankar (Kaveripura), Netra Narayan (Kaval Byrasandra), Padmavathi Narasimhamurthy (Rajagopalnagar) and Umme Salma (Kushalnagar).<br /> </p>
