Nobody misses them though ...

Yet another pronouncement about elections to local urban bodies. HDK orders that the elections be setup by July 31 for all local bodies except BBMP. Ramalinga Reddy and Dharam Singh(remember him?) of the Congress Party take objection to BBMP being excluded. What is interesting is that nobody in the state, bar these two gentlemen seem to be missing their corporators & mayors. It is not apparent that people have seen any difference. Concerns, remedies and works are being raised and resolved as usual. But the law, perhaps, has been broken. What exactly does a mayor or a corporator actually do? From what I understand in KA the more "lucrative" post is that of the corporator. About the only thing that the last mayor did was to go to china and promise to wash roads on return. Of course she didn't have the power to make the various agencies to actually get to it nor did she have the time. Even before she could say kengal-hanumantiah-road her piddly 1 year term was over. It would have been great if HDK had taken the time to reform the law and revise the scope and responsibilities of local representatives, but instead, it just looks like he bought time to do what he wanted to do and has perhaps in the process set a dangerous precedent.