Vishakhapatnam gets woman mayor, deputy

Naveen S Garewal 
Tribune News Service 
Hyderabad, March 18

Golagani Hari Venkata Kumari was elected as the new mayor of Visakhapatnam on Thursday. She belongs to the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) and was elected Corporator of 11th ward in Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation in the just concluded municipal polls. 

At the same time, senior corporator Jiyyani Sridhar from Ward 52 has been elected as the new Deputy Mayor. 

Interestingly, both Hyderabad city in Telangana and Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh have women elected as mayors and deputy mayors. 

Hari Venkata Kumari is the second woman mayor of Visakhapatnam, after Congress party’s Rajani Ramani. 

Kumari and Sridhar as well as all the corporators were sworn in on Thursday at the GVMC council hall and the ceremony was attended by Rajya Sabha member V Vijayasai Reddy, MPs MVV Satyanarayana (Visakhapatnam), and BV Satyavathi (Anakapalle), Tourism Minister Muttamsetti Srinivasa Rao, and GVMC Commissioner S Nagalakshmi.