Khammam: Punukollu Neeraja, corporator from 26th division, was chosen unanimously as Mayor of Khammam Municipal Corporation on Friday.

She was the choice of lots of TRS leaders including Sattupalli MLA Sandra Venkata Veeraiah.Khammam got a lady mayor for the first time after the civic body was updated as corporation.

Neeraja and her spouse Ramabrahmam hailed from Krishna district and calmed down here 35 years ago.Shaik Fathima Johara, corporator from 37th division was chosen deputy mayor.

The name of Maqbool, corporator from 23rd department, was heard till the eleventh hour, however luck favoured Fathima.Key TRS leaders like transportation minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar, MLC Balasani Laxminarayana and Sattupalli MLA Sandra Venkata Veeraiah were not present at the occasion due to numerous factors.

Ajay remains in home seclusion after he was evaluated Covid-positive.

Minister for roads and structures Vemula Prasanth Reddy and TRS state general secretary Nukala Naresh Reddy, who stayed in a hotel, manage the mayor and deputy mayor election process.They first talked to Neeraja and Fathima and later to other corporators.

TRS corporators were told the 2 were chosen by the party high command.Later, TRS corporators and minister for roads and structures Prasanth Reddy and Naresh Reddy reached the corporation workplace.

Unique officer and additional collector V Madhusudan conducted the 'oath taking' for the corporators.

Election observer Nadeem Ahmad and local commissioner Anurag Jayanthi likewise went to the program.

Mayor Neeraja stated she has a desire to form Khammam on par with Hyderabad with the assistance of all corporators.

I will attempt to make all the roads tidy, in the minimum, she promised.