Bidar: The Janata Dal (Secular) has bagged the posts of president and vice-president in the Bidar Taluk Panchayat. Congress members have been elected to these posts in Basavakalyan. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bagged the two posts in Aurad Taluk Panchayat. The Congress was in power in all the three taluk panchayats during the last term. Prabhurao Patil Chitta and Kumar Amalapur were elected president and vice-president respectively of Bidar Taluk Panchayat in Tuesday's elections. These posts were unreserved. The Janata Dal (S) has 11 members in the 23-member House. It got the support of three independents. Mr. Chitta served as the Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee President.

Maruti Kashempur of the Janata Dal (S) said his brother and MLA Bandeppa Kashempur and party's State unit Working President H.D. Kumarswamy spoke to the candidates phone before the election. They were elected unopposed.

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Shashikala Jagannath Tambole and Jai Bheem Shivray Kamble were elected president and vice-president of Basavakalyan Taluk Panchayat on Monday.

The president's post was reserved for Other Backward Classes (B). And that of vice-president was reserved for a candidate of the Scheduled Castes.

The Congress has 14 seats in the 25-member House.

It fielded Ms. Tambole and Mr. Kamble. The Janata Dal (S) that has six members and it fielded Sunita Ramdas and Rajkumar Ekaloor. The Janata Dal (United), the BJP, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and an independent voted for the Janata Dal (S) candidates. Another independent did not vote. The former minister Basavaraj Patil Attur, former MLAs M.G. Mule and Annapurnabai Ragate, and block Congress president Jagannath Tambole were present.

Govind Jadhav became the president and Saraswati Neelange vice-president of Aurad Taluk Panchayat. These were unanimous choices.

The president's post was reserved for a candidate of Scheduled Castes and the vice-president's post was reserved for the Other Backward Classes (B) (woman).

The BJP has 16 of the 23 seats. There was some confusion when some party members opposed the nomination of Ms. Neelange and demanded that Chandramma Gurunath Eklar to be elected vice-president.

Senior leader Basavaraj Patil Kollur walked out of the pre-election meeting. He accused the former MLA Gundappa Vakil of encouraging factionalism and of adopting a dictatorial style of functioning. But senior leaders intervened and resolved the matter.

Party observer Raghunath Malkapure, the former MLA Gundappa Vakil, and district general secretary Babu Wali were present.

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