TDP Councillor Selvi from Ward Quantity 5 is the Subsequent PBMC Chairperson

Tarun Karthick

Port Blair, 14 March 2023

Mrs. Selvi, Councillor, Ward No. 5, would be the subsequent Chairperson of Port Blair Municipal Council. Elections have been held for the Chairperson of Port Blair Municipal Council on 14th March 2023, and Mrs. Selvi secured 14 votes out of the whole 24 Votes. 

Mrs. Selvi was the joint candidate for BJP-TDP Alliance. 

Mr. Vetrivelu, the INC-DMK Alliance candidate from Ward No. 20 secured 10 votes.

According to sources, Mrs. Selvi shall be sworn in because the Chairperson of PBMC on the sixteenth of March 2023.

Mrs. Selvi was elected to PBMC because the councillor of Ward No. 5 from Telugu Desam Party. BJP had received 10 council seats, whereas INC-DMK alliance had received 11 council seats within the election held in March 2022.

BJP fashioned a post-poll alliance with TDP. TDP had received two council seats. The lone unbiased candidate who had received the council elections in 2022 additionally prolonged her assist to BJP. BJP managed 13 votes within the final election for PBMC Chairperson, the place Mrs. Kavitha Udhaya Kumar was elected. 

However, 14 candidates voted in favour of Mrs. Selvi within the just lately performed elections for the publish of Chairperson, PBMC, indicating that a minimum of one candidate from the Congress-DMK Alliance has voted in favour of the BJP-TDP Alliance candidate.