Bhaskar Moily elected Mangaluru mayor, Mohammad Kunjathabail is deputy mayor
Mangaluru: Bhaskar Moily and Mohammad Kunjathabail elected as Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Mangaluru, respectively, for the last term of the present municipal council here on Thursday.
BJP had fielded Surendra for the post of mayor as their candidate. While Moily secured 37 votes, Surendra could bag 19 votes in favor of him.
Mohammed Kunjathabail secured 37 votes, and BJP's Meera Karkera got 19 votes. Five corporators remained neutral.
Shivayogi C Kalasad, Regional Commissioner Mysuru, who was the election returning officer, announced Bhaskar Moily as mayor and Mohammad Kunjattbail as deputy mayor.
MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, MLAs Mohiyuddin Bawa, Ganesh Karnik, BJP member Harish Shetty were absent. MLC Ivan D'Souza, MLA JR Lobo participated in the election and voted for the Congress candidates.
While the Council has 60 elected corporators, Congress has the strength of 35 elected representatives, BJP has 20. While JD(S) has two corporators in the council, SDPI has one representative and an independent candidate.
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Indigo flights chaos: SCR to run special trains to clear passenger rush
Hyderabad (PTI): The South Central Railway on Saturday announced that it would run four special trains to manage the surge in passengers resulting from the large-scale cancellation of IndiGo flights here.
The move comes as flyers face significant disruption and long queues at the airport due to the cancellation.
A press release from the SCR said it is running the special trains to clear the extra rush of passengers to Chennai, Mumbai and Shalimar (Kolkata) from Hyderabad today.
Meanwhile, as many as 43 outbound Indigo flights were cancelled from here on Saturday, Rajiv Gandhi International Airport sources said.
Similarly, 26 incoming flights are also likely to be cancelled during the day, they said.
The flight cancellations drew ire from passengers, who thronged the IndiGo counters at the airport demanding to know the exact situation.
“This is utter nonsense! Digiyatra done, message received that departure has been rescheduled ahead of the scheduled departure and now upon arriving at Hyderabad airport coming to know at the security checkpoint that Indigo flight is cancelled,” Tarun Singha, former Ministry of Defence spokesperson said in a post on X.
“But the thing is if you don’t shout they do nothing. Example at Hyderabad Airport, there was no staff no flight information for an hour. Then a fellow passenger started shouting on mic and an Indigo staff appeared finally,” a netizen said in a post.
On Friday, when IndiGo cancelled over 1,000 flights from across airports, its CEO Pieter Elbers apologised in a video message for the major inconvenience caused to passengers due to the disruptions.
In the one-way video communication, Elbers also said that the airline was expecting fewer than 1,000 flights on Saturday.
