Cong bags Sakleshpur taluk panchayat chief post

hassan: kousalya lakshman gowda and girish of the congress have been elected president and vice-president, respectively, to the sakleshpur taluk panchayat. tahsildar vasudev tannirbavi conducted the elections. in the 23-member house, the congress has 15 members, janatha dal (s) has three members and five independents. a breakaway faction of the congress with seven members, formed a separate group and did not support kousalya lakshman gowda and girish.the three 3 jd(s) members supported gowda and girish. arkalgud tp: krishnaiah of the congress and sajeeda bi of the jd (s) have been unanimously elected president and vice-president to the arkalgud town panchayat. tahsildar jaganathroa conducted the elections. in the 14-member house, the congress has 8 members, jd (s) has 4 and two independents. music concert: the lions club had organised a music concert of kudroli ganesh on sunday at kalabhavan. lions president manjunath murthy, cmc commissioner b.a. paramesh and lions former president sanjiva b. hegde distributed artificial limbs to physically challenged persons. former presidents jayaramashetty, jaganatha shetty, kireet, m.c. vasudev, b k shamaraj were present.