Hyderabad: Friday turned out to be a day of both celebration and mourning for two former Mayors of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.
While GHMC’s first Mayor Banda Karthika of Congress party lost the elections from Tarnaka ward, her successor Mohammed Majid Hussain won from Mehdipatnam ward. Banda Karthika had served as GHMC Mayor for first two years from 2009 while Majid Hussain was city’s Mayor for a period of three years. (INN)