The Shankar directed
great hit – Arjun starrer ‘Mudhalvan’ ~ was in fact ‘Oru naal Mudhalvan’ (Chief
Minister for One day)….it was indeed an enjoyable movie by most counts with
inspirational dialogues of our beloved Sujatha.
The charter
of George I in Sept 1726 provided for the development of the town anciently
called Chinapatnam and Fort St. George.
A Body Corporate was accordingly authorised to consist of a Mayor and
nine Aldermen, of whom Mayor and not less than 7 Aldermen were to be natural
born subjects of British.
The Mayor and Aldermen were to be a Court of
record authorised to try all civil suits.
Elihu Yale was the Governor of
the East India Company settlement in Fort St. George, at Madras under whose regime, Corporation for the city and Mayor to head
the same were instituted. The idea of a Municipal Government of Madras was
reportedly begotten from the Dutch Government in the East Indies.
Earlier in 1688, the Madras Corporation was inaugurated
with all due solemnity, the Mayor and others taking their respective
oaths. Nathaniel Higginson (1652 –1708)
was an English politician and a scion of the Higginson family of Salem,
Massachusetts served as the first Mayor of Madras, and later as the President
of the colony from 1692 to 1698. Mr. Higginson served only six months as Mayor
and resigned.
There have been
some very active mayors ~ Artūras Zuokas was the Chairman of the political
party Lithuanian Freedom Union and was the Mayor of Vilnius from 2000 to 2007
and again from 2011 to 2015. Zukoas earlier worked as independent reporter for Independent
Television News as a war reporter in Iraq, where he taped the bombing of the
Baghdad TV Tower during the First Gulf War. In August 1991, he brought captured footage from the site of the
Medininkai Massacre to the official meeting between the president of the United
States George Bush and Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow,
which caused concern from the American side about the use of force against
freedom-seeking nations.
During his tenure
he was daring and once at Lithuania's capital, Vilnius, he was filmed using an armoured vehicle to crush a
car parked illegally in a cycle lane. "That's what will happen if you park
your car illegally," Mayor Arturas Zuokas, an avid cyclist, was to say in a clip posted on the Vilnius City website. In
the video, Mr Zuokas ticks off the car's owner, sweeps up the broken glass from
the wreckage and then hops on a bicycle and rides off - a scenario many
cyclists would relish.
This certainly is different
and I could not understand sense behind.
As Brynneth Pawltro, the latest mayor of the small Kentucky town of
Rabbit Hash, settles into office, town residents are praising her as outgoing
and having a great smile. She also happens to be a dog.
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photo from askideas.com
“There’s always
inappropriate licking going on,” Bobbi Kayser, secretary of the town’s
historical society, told WDRB.com of how meetings with the new mayor tend to
go. Brynneth, or Brynn for short, is a 3-year-old rescue pit bull. She defeated
several contenders, including Stella the cat and a donkey named Higgins, to win
the mayoral election. According to People magazine, Brynn amassed more than
3,300 votes, winning the election by a “landslide.” Brynneth is actually the
fourth dog to be elected mayor of the town, which is so small it doesn’t even
need a real mayor. The elections started in the late 1990s as a fundraiser,
Bamforth told the station. Each voter is charged a dollar and allowed to vote
as often as they would like.
The money from the
election normally goes toward town improvements — but this year it helped
repair the General Store that was severely damaged by a fire. On the campaign
trail, Bamforth said that Brynneth would help to sniff out the community’s
problems.
Back home, there was this sensational hero – Dashrath
Manjhi in the hills of Bihar – the man who broke the hill with iron will of a
mountain, making his native village accessible. A straight lift from a popular
movie – Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar asked this septuagenarian from Gaya
to occupy his chair for a little over five minutes. Nitish said that was one
way of acknowledging the greatness of the great deed. Manjhi died in chill
penury is another sad story….
Actors hog
limelight – in 1962, invited by the
then-US President, John F. Kennedy, Sivaji Ganesan visited US. During his visit there, he was honoured by
being made the honorary mayor of Niagara Falls, New York for one day and was
presented the key to the city. The only other Indian who has had this honour
before Ganesan was Jawaharlal Nehru.
Before concluding,
there was this tragic incident of one day Mayor – Gisela Mota, 33, (pictured at the start) mayor
of the Mexican city of Temixco was killed in a terror attack a day after she
took charge and thus was Mayor for a day only.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
27th
June 2017
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