Although some of the BJP corporators who are interested in the post of Belgaum Mayor this year have been defeated, they will get another chance in 2026. Because the reservation of Mayor-Deputy Mayor post of 2026 has already been announced and it is reserved for ‘General Women’ and ‘Scheduled Caste Women’ respectively.
The Mayor-Deputy Mayor election for the 24th term of the Belgaum Municipal Hall will be held in the year 2026. The post of Mayor of that time has been reserved for a common woman and the post of Deputy Mayor has been reserved for a Scheduled Caste woman. The tenure of Belgaum Municipal Corporation’s People Appointed Hall ended in March 2019.
But between 2019 and 2022, the reservation of the post of mayor and deputy mayor of all municipalities in the state including Belgaum has been announced. Therefore, the corporators have already known the reservation for the next three terms. BJP corporators have their eye on that reservation. Also, according to that reservation, those corporators who are eligible to become mayors and deputy mayors will be able to march from now.
Belgaum Municipal Corporation election was held last September 2021. Before that, in February 2021, the reservation of the post of mayor-deputy mayor for the 23rd tenure was announced. Therefore, the corporators had an understanding that the mayor-deputy mayor election would be held according to that reservation.
However, the Municipal Corporation sought an explanation from the Urban Development Department. At that time, according to the reservation of the 21st term announced by the Urban Development Department in September 2019, it was suggested to hold the Mayor-Deputy Mayor election.
Therefore, according to the same reservation, the election was held on February 6. BJP’s Vani Joshi, Sarika Patil and Dipali Topli were also vying for the post of mayor in this election. But unfortunately he did not get a chance to become the mayor. Now, in his 24th term, he can get that chance again.
