Rukmini Madegowda elected as Mayor of Mysuru

Rukmini Madegowda of JD(S) has been elected as the Mayor of Mysuru and Anwar Baig of Congress has elected as deputy mayor.

The election for the Mayor and Deputy Mayor post was held at Mysuru City Corporation here, on Wednesday.

With this, Congress and JD(S) continued their alliance for the third term. Rukmini Madegowda obtained 43 votes.

All three parties had filed candidates but finally JD(S) and Congress decided to continue the pact to keep BJP away from power.