Udupi, February 9: Senior BJP man Katapady Shankar Poojary, representing Kaup ZP constituency, has been elected as the President of Udupi Zilla Panchayath. In addition to SSLC, Shankar Poojary is a government diploma holder in Co-operation (GDC).
Jyothi S Shetty of BJP representing Mandarthi constituency has been elected his deputy. They will head the Udupi ZP for 20 months from Feb 9, 2011 to Oct 8, 2012.
All the 16 BJP members voted for Shankar Poojary and Jyothi S Shetty, while the Congress candidates Diwakar Kundar and Mallika Balakrishna Poojary, got only nine votes.
Divisional Commissioner MV Jayanthi was the returning officer. Assistant Regional Commissioner Manjunath Nayak, Deputy Commissioner –in charge- Prabhakar, ZP CEO Rajashekhar assisted in the election process.
Speaking on the occasion Shankar Poojary said that his priorities would be facilitating drinking water supply, developing rural minor roads and solid waste management.
With regard to more powers to Zilla Panchayath, Poojary said that as the state government had agreed in principle to implement the Third Finance Commission Report, submitted by AG Kodgi and BJP had also included the same in its election manifesto, he hopes that would come in to effect from April 2011.
Udupi MLA Raghupathi Bhat, Kaup MLA Lalaji R Mendon, outgoing ZP Presdient Gladis Almeida, District BJP President Uday Kumar Shetty and others congratulated the newly-elected ZP heads.
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