Jadhav to be Pimpri Chinchwad Mayor, Chinchwade Deputy Mayor

Wednesday, August 1, 2018, 11:12 AM  | e-paper

Jadhav to be Pimpri Chinchwad Mayor, Chinchwade Deputy Mayor 

Camil Parkhe

10.15 AM    goo.gl/C5H1Lr

The election to the two posts will be held at a special general body meeting to be convened on Saturday, August 4. Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) Chairperson Nayana Munde will be the presiding officer.

Pimpri: Rahul Jadhav, a supporter of Bhosari MLA Mahesh Landge, will be the new Mayor of Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation while Sachin Chinchwade, a supporter of Chinchwad MLA Laxman Jagtap, will be the new Deputy Mayor.

Jadhav and Chinchwade, whose candidatures were announced by the BJP, filed their nominations here on Tuesday, the last day of filing of nominations. 

The two posts had fallen vacant following resignations by Mayor Nitin Kalje and Deputy Mayor Shailja More last week. The BJP has decided to give 15-month term to various civic office-bearers to rotate the posts among the party’s various aspirants.

The mayoral post is reserved for the Other Backward Class (OBC) category. Outgoing mayor Kalje had submitted Kunbi caste certificate to the election authorities. Jadhav, the new candidate for the mayoral post, belongs to Mali, another OBC community. BJP, the ruling party in the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, has 77 members in the 128-member House.

The election to the two posts will be held at a special general body meeting to be convened on Saturday, August 4. Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) Chairperson Nayana Munde will be the presiding officer.

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Mali community leaders stake claim to mayor’s post in PCMC

Monday, July 30, 2018, 11:20 AM  | e-paper

Mali community leaders stake claim to mayor’s post in PCMC

Camil Parkhe

10.15 AM

The mayoral post has fallen vacant, following resignation by Nitin Kalje. The post is presently reserved for a candidate of OBC. Kalje was elected to the post on the basis of his Kunbi caste certificate.

Pimpri: Even as the BJP is grappling with the issue of reservation for the Maratha community, the leaders of Mali, another dominant community in the state, has demanded selection of a Mali candidate as the mayor for Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC).

The leaders have warned that the BJP will have to face consequences in the polls if the community’s demand is ignored. 

The leaders of the Mali community made this demand at a press conference held here. The press conference was attended by corporator Sweenal Mhetre, Ashwini Jadhav, former corporators Suresh Mhetre, Ajay Saykar and Sunil Lokhande.

The mayoral post has fallen vacant, following resignation by Nitin Kalje. The post is presently reserved for a candidate of Other Backward Class (OBC). Kalje was elected to the post on the basis of his Kunbi caste certificate. 

The Mali community leaders said that during the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party’s regimes, three women corporators Anita Pharance, Aparna Doke and Vaishali Ghodekar, belonging to the Mali caste, were elected as the city’s mayors. The leaders said that it is hoped that the BJP, present ruling party in the PCMC, will also give justice to the Mali community which has nearly two lakh voters in the city.

The Mali leaders said that the community in the city played an important role in bringing the BJP to power in the city also in the State. They said the community was disappointed when the BJP selected Nitin Kalje as mayor when the post was reserved for the OBC category. 

The Mali community will plan its strategy if its demand is ignored by the BJP, the leaders said.    

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