Currently, the BBMP council is controlled by a JD(S)-Congress coalition, even though the BJP has more corporators.
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Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike officials announced that the mayoral elections along with elections for chairpersons for four Standing Committees will be held on Tuesday as scheduled. Earlier in the day, there were reports suggesting that the mayoral polls would be deferred due to a Karnataka High Court order. Even Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa hinted that the polls won’t be held for the next one and a half months. However, officials said that nominations will be accepted from the period between 8:00 am to 9:30 am and the same will be verified by 11:30 am. The voting for the Mayor post will take place at 11:30 am. Following which elections for the Deputy Mayor and Standing Committees of Tax and Finance, Health, Accounts and Market will take place. Currently, the BBMP council is controlled by a JD(S)-Congress coalition, even though the BJP has 101 corporators out of the 198-member council. This is due to the rule that alongside the corporators, all MLAs, MLCs and MPs residing in Bengaluru also have a vote in the mayoral elections taking the voter tally to 257. However, a top source in the Congress-JD(S) told TNM that the coalition is not hopeful of retaining the council. Five MLAs from Bengaluru stand disqualified as they paved way for the formation of the BJP government in state along with 10 others, and with this the BJP has a chance at the BBMP council for the first time. seven independent corporators will prove crucial for both the camps and sources say that most of these independents are likely to go with the BJP this time BJP on paper has 101 corporators, four Lok Sabha MPs, two Rajya Sabha MPs, 11 MLAs and 7 MLCs. In addition to this, in 2018, they had an independent councillor aligned with them taking their tally to 126, which is three short of the magic number. On the other hand, the JD(S)-Congress coalition claims it has the support of 131 voters with 90 corporators, one Lok Sabha MP, seven Rajya Sabha MPs, 12 MLAs, 15 MLCs and six independents who voted for them for the last four years. “Out of the 22 corporators in the five constituencies held by the rebels, we are expecting 15 to abstain from tomorrow’s election, this will easily tilt the balance in favour of BJP,” a top source told TNM, Similarly, TNM had earlier reported that the BJP is in talks with corporators who are loyal to the five disqualified MLAs to vote in its favour. Candidates As part of the existing arrangement between the JD(S) and Congress, the Congress had held the Mayor post while JD(S) had settled for the Deputy Mayor post for the last four years. Sources in the Congress said they are counting on Satyanarayana BS and Mohammed Rizwan. For the BJP, party sources said current Leader of Opposition Padmanabha Reddy is the favourite alongside L Srinivas and K Umesh. A formal announcement from both the camps is awaited.
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