Thursday, December 3, 2009

Mohansingh Rajpal is Pune's first Sikh mayor

PUNE: Mohansingh Rajpal of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) was elected mayor on Tuesday with a comfortable margin of 44 votes. Rajpal was elected with the support of the Congress party.

It was a straight fight between Rajpal, who got 89 votes and the Shiv Sena (SS) candidate Deepak Gawde who managed to get 45 votes from SS and Bharatiya Janata Party members. Ten corporators were absent during the elections, eight of them from the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena.

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