BJP wins top posts in Hubballi-Dharwad City Corporation; Veena Baradwad elected Mayor
Hubballi: BJP candidates on Tuesday won the elections to the posts of Mayor and Deputy Mayor for the 22nd term of the Hubballi-Dharwad City Corporation.
In the party’s second successive victory for the top posts of the Corporation, Veena Baradwad was elected Mayor with 46 votes, while her opponent from the Congress Suvarna Kalkunta got 37 votes.
BJP member Satish Surendra Hangal, who is the representative of Ward 32 in the Corporation, won the election to the post of Deputy Mayor with 46 votes.
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The Hubballi-Dharwad City Corporation has a total of 82 members, including 39 members from the BJP, 33 from the Congress, 1 from the JD(S), 3 from AIMIM and 6 Independents. The post of the Mayor was reserved for a woman belonging to ‘General’ category, while the Deputy Mayor’s post was reserved for the ‘General’ category.
Belagavi Regional Commissioner Nitesh Patil, who was also the election officer for the poll, declared the results on Tuesday.
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
