Rajani Duganna (1945 – 9 July 2023) was an Indian politician who served as 24th mayor of

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. She took office on 26 February 2010, with B. Rajendra Kumar as deputy mayor. She was the fifth woman to become mayor of the city corporation since its establishment in 1984. She was a

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and belonged to the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...

(BJP). Duganna was succeeded as mayor by her cousin

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on 28 February 2011. Duganna died on 9 July 2023, at the age of 78.

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