Direct election to Shimla MC’s top posts a failed experiment

Even as the Congress government has judiciously amended the relevant Act to revert to old system of indirect election to the posts of Mayor and Deputy Mayor in Shimla Municipal Corporation from next time, the one-time experiment of ‘direct election’ by the previous BJP government has actually proved a failure on ground.While the recent logjam in the Corporation, wherein the Deputy Mayor, Tekinder Singh Panwar (CPM) has come in direct confrontation with the Congress and BJP councillors over development issue is the outcome of long simmering discontent.

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