{"id":27697,"date":"2020-06-16T13:17:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T07:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/smc-mayor-loses-no-confidence-motion\/"},"modified":"2020-06-16T13:17:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T07:47:26","slug":"smc-mayor-loses-no-confidence-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=27697","title":{"rendered":"SMC mayor loses no-confidence motion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>BJP, NC corporators voted against me: Junaid Mattu\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong> The Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) Mayor Junaid Azim Mattu on Tuesday lost the floor test after 40 corporators voted against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The special session of corporation was held after the majority of corporators had moved a no-confidence resolution against Mattoo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>41 councillors including the Deputy Mayor were present. 40 councilors voted against Mayor while Dy Mayor who presided the session didn\u2019t vote. Under rules, the presiding officer (Dy Mayor) has to vote when there is a tie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOut of 70 councillors, 40 corporators have voted against Mattoo,\u201d officials in SMC told news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is worth to mention here that Congress councillors didn\u2019t participate in the special session today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Mattoo in his tweet said that he respect the verdict of corporation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe vote of \u2018No Confidence Motion\u2019 against me, and the @JKPC_has been passed in the SMC with 42 votes out of 70. The @BJP4India, @JKNC_and some independents have polled against the @JKPC_and @INCIndia abstaining whip where 28 Corporators abstained,\u201d Mattoo tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI respect the verdict of the Corporation. The seemingly unthinkable seems to have happened as @JKNC_ and @BJP4India have come together in Srinagar. But more on that later. Time to spend some time with my family after nearly four months of our war against #COVID19,\u201d Mattoo wrote on twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile,&nbsp; the authorities will hold fresh election for the post of SMC Mayor\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BJP, NC corporators voted against me: Junaid Mattu\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Srinagar: The Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) Mayor Junaid Azim Mattu on Tuesday lost the floor test after 40 corporators voted against him. The special session of corporation was held after the majority of corporators had moved a no-confidence resolution against Mattoo. 41 councillors including the Deputy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}