Indian-origin man becomes Mayor of Germany’s Bonn city

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Ashok Sridharan. Photo: Special Arrangement







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Ashok Sridharan, a mayoral candidate of Chancellor Angela Merkel-led Christian Democratic Union has comprehensively won the election in Bonn.
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.

49-year-old Sridharan secured the absolute majority by polling 50.06 per cent of the votes in Sunday’s 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).

Mr. 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.

Until now, he served as the treasurer and assistant mayor in the municipal administration of neighbouring town Koenigswinter.

His absolute majority in the first round of the election and his strong lead over his two main opponents came as a surprise to many political observers, who predicted a close finish.

His nearest rival Peter Ruhenstroth-Bauer of the SPD finished far behind him with a share of 23.68 per cent of the votes while Tom Schmidt of the Green party received a share of 22.14 per cent of the votes.

Only around 45 per cent of the city’s 245,000 voters went to the polls to cast their votes, which was much less than the turn-out in the last election in Bonn in 2009, according to the election results.

Keywords: Bonn Mayoral elections, Ashok Sridharan, Indian-origin German

 

[Arya Desa]

Hopefully the prevents those "migrants" from getting into the city.

 

[Speeder 2]

Should we be prepared to see Bonn's tourist boom due to newly-gained cultural enrichment of sh!ting in the street?

 

[coffee_cup]

He is just half Indian from the father side.

Was born 50 years ago in Germany, says proudly that he is a "Bonn boy" (a little bit embarrased of his name, which sounds like Indian and thus added "Alexander" to his name to make a point), married to a German and has kids who have perhaps never set a foot in India.

And these guys are jumping up and down to show the world as if Modi's grandson has just conquered Germany,

 

[Mo12]

He is just half Indian from the father side.

Was born 50 years ago in Germany, says proudly that he is a "Bonn boy" (a little bit embarrased of his name, which sounds like Indian and thus added "Alexander" to his name to make a point), married to a German and has kids who have perhaps never set a foot in India.

And these guys are jumping up and down to show the world as if Modi's grandson has just conquered Germany,

Still he has indian origin.

You need to learn how to read.

 

[Arya Desa]

Should we be prepared to see Bonn's tourist boom due to newly-gained cultural enrichment of sh!ting in the street?

We can always get extra cheenia to eat it up. After all, it's your culture to eat everything, be it bugs, poop, or human fetuses.

 

[MEAGAN FOXSS]

FAKE A NEWS STUNT BY CIA . . . . .

 

[UKBengali]

Hopefully the prevents those "migrants" from getting into the city.

Why do Indians care who immigrates into Europe?

 

[ultron]

fantastic news

 

[rcrmj]

this is the root of Indian's grand delusion```they are ludicrous, they take pride from trivial things that has nothing to do with India```
pathetic

 

[AndrewJin]

this is the root of Indian's grand delusion```they are ludicrous, they take pride from trivial things that has nothing to do with India```
pathetic

In their sense, Chinese in China should be proud of overseas Chinese who control the economy of Southeast Asia or Singapore? Or Thai King who has Chinese blood?
I have seen too many such threads about overseas Indian blah blah...

 

[coffee_cup]

In their sense, Chinese in China should be proud of overseas Chinese who control the economy of Southeast Asia or Singapore? Or Thai King who has Chinese blood?
I have seen too many such threads about overseas Indian blah blah...

Or Germans should start making huge headlines about the Queen being German etc.

You won't hear it from any mature nation, Indians are simply hyper emotional people taking pride in any small things which have nothing to do with them!

His father was a Christian Indian who perhaps escaped India to save his life some 50-60 years ago and that is all about him being "Indian"!

He was born in German, his mother is German, he is married to a German, and added "Alexander" to his name to make his name sound like German as well.

And you see Indian media going ga-ga about him being Indian,

Time for Kenya to erect a statue of Obama and make their newspapers posting headlines for one year declaring "Kenyan origin become second time president of USA"

 

[AnnoyingOrange]

He is just half Indian from the father side.

Was born 50 years ago in Germany, says proudly that he is a "Bonn boy" (a little bit embarrased of his name, which sounds like Indian and thus added "Alexander" to his name to make a point), married to a German and has kids who have perhaps never set a foot in India.

And these guys are jumping up and down to show the world as if Modi's grandson has just conquered Germany,

What is the definition of Indian Origin?

Here ...let me help you...

A person of Indian origin (PIO) is a person of Indian origin or ancestry but who is not a citizen of India and is the citizen of another country. A PIO might have been a citizen of India and subsequently taken the citizenship of another country, or have ancestors born in India or other states.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

Should we be prepared to see Bonn's tourist boom due to newly-gained cultural enrichment of sh!ting in the street?

@waz

 

[coffee_cup]

What is the definition of Indian Origin?

Here ...let me help you...

A person of Indian origin (PIO) is a person of Indian origin or ancestry but who is not a citizen of India and is the citizen of another country. A PIO might have been a citizen of India and subsequently taken the citizenship of another country, or have ancestors born in India or other states.

It is not about the definition, it is about hyper emotional Indian mentality, taking pride of trivial things and making it some sort of national achievement.

Read @AndrewJin 's post to get an idea of what we are saying!