Ashok Sridharan, a mayoral candidate of Chancellor
Angela Merkel-led Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has comprehensively
won the election in Bonn, becoming the first person of Indian-origin to
occupy the mayor’s office in a major German city.
Ashok Sridharan(49) secured the absolute majority by polling 50.06 per cent of
the votes in Sunday Sep 13,2015 election in the former German capital, according
to provisional results.
His victory marks the end of more than 21 years’ rule of the city by the Social Democratic Party (SPD).
Ashok Sridharan, who is the son of a migrant from India and a German mother,
will take over the reigns of the city administration from the outgoing
SPD mayor Juergen Nymptsch on October 21,2015
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