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Newly-elected KMC councillors take oath

June 14, 2010 04:23 pm | Updated 04:27 pm IST - Kolkata

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Following their stellar performance in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation elections, all 95 winning candidates of the Trinamool Congress took out processions in their respective wards on Saturday in order to thank the voters for voting them to power. A file Photo: Sushanta Patronobish.

Following their stellar performance in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation elections, all 95 winning candidates of the Trinamool Congress took out processions in their respective wards on Saturday in order to thank the voters for voting them to power. A file Photo: Sushanta Patronobish.

All the 141 newly-elected councillors of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) took oathon Monday led by Mayor-in-waiting Shovan Chatterjee.

The new board has 95 members from the Trinamool Congress, 10 from the Congress, three from the BJP and 33 from the Left Front.

The oath was administered by West Bengal Municipal Affairs Secretary Alapan Banerjee at the councillor’s house in the KMC headquarters.

Mr. Chatterjee, the would-be mayor also filed his nomination papers while Trinamool candidate Sachidanand Banerjee filed his nomination for the post of chairman of the corporation.

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