A total of 18 newly-elected corporators including 13 independent and 5 BJP corporators took oath of office at the Durg District Collectorate on Wednesday.
District Collector, R Shangeetha administered the oath of office to the newly elected corporators and wished them good luck.
The independent corporators, who took the oath included Vashist Narayan Mishra, Rikesh Sen, Piyush Mishra, laxmipati Raju, G Raju, Ramanand Mourya, Manoj Yadav, Chhotelal Choudhary, Rajesh Choudhary, Sanju Sahu, lalita Reddy, Reshmi Singh and Mamta Santosh.
The BJP corporators included Paramjeet Singh laddi, Shiv Prakash Shibu, Kuleshwar Prasad, Rinku, P Shrinivas Rao and Sulekha Yadav respectively.
It may be mentioned that the 13 independent corporators had boycotted the official oath-taking ceremony held on January 11 terming it as sheer waste of people’s hard earned money while the 5 BJP corporators failed to attend the ceremony due to some personal reasons.
Also present on the occasion were the independent corporators of Durg Municipal Corporation including Ashish Dubey, Deepak Sahu, D Prakash, Hameed Khokhar, Kuleshwar Sahu, Arun Yadav and independent Mayoral candidate, Deepa Madhyani.