HYDERABAD: After 15 years,
Jubilee Hills
Cooperative House Building Society (JHCHBS) has elected new office-bearers with Jubilee Hills Welfare Society (JHWS) bagging all 15 positions in the
polls
held for the society on Sunday. Murali Mukund, an
entrepreneur
and educationist, is likely to be the president.
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JHWS has Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) working president and former Union minister JD Seelam’s wife Sujatha Seelam as one of the panel members. Though former JHCHBS president Narendra Chowdary did not contest the
election
this time, he had backed
Team Jubilee Hills
.
Earlier in the day, politicians, bureaucrats, entrepreneurs and
Telugu
film celebrities descended on Bharatiya Vidhya Bhavan Public School at Jubilee Hills to cast their vote in the elections to Jubilee Hills Cooperative House Building Society (JHCHBS), one of Asia’s biggest housing societies. Though the society had 3,181 members on the voter’s list, only 1,756 members turned up to vote at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan on Road Number 71, Jubilee Hills.
Transport minister P Ajay Kuamar, newly-elected TRS MLC Surabhi Vani Devi and actor M Srikanth were spotted at the polling station.
Both the panels have people from various strata, which include entrepreneurs, politicians, doctors and philanthropists. Both panels were backed by owners of various media outlets. The two panels took post shots at each other and rolled out documents, circulated videos alleging each other of corrupt practices till Sunday morning. The housing society is spread over 1,195 acres in the upscale Jubilee Hills and has over 5,000 members.
“It as a very good opportunity to residents to make their living space better,” said M Venkat Rama Rao, a resident. “I am happy that people got an opportunity to vote after a decade. We have been deprived of our right for years,” Sangeeta Varma, a resident of Road Number 56, Jubilee Hills, said.