List of mayors of Hyderabad
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The mayor of Hyderabad is the head of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation which is abbreviated as GHMC. The tenure for the post of GHMC is for 5 years. Currently the GHMC consists of 150 wards. Each ward is headed by a ward member and these elected ward members elect a mayor for the corporation. The post of the mayor of Hyderabad is currently vacant.[1]
AbbreviationHYDMYR
ResidenceHyderabad, Telangana, India
| Mayor of Hyderabad | |
|---|---|
Incumbent since 10 February 2026Vacant | |
| Status | Head of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation |
| Abbreviation | HYDMYR |
| Member of | Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation |
| Residence | Hyderabad, Telangana, India |
| Seat | 5-1-304, Main Rd, Hashmath Gunj, Subhash Nagar, Badi Chowdi, Koti, Hyderabad, Telangana 500095 |
| Appointer | Elected by the councillors |
| Term length | 5 years |
| Inaugural holder | Madapati Hanumantha Rao |
| Formation | 19 years, 16 days |
| Website | GHMC Mayor |
List of mayors
| Sno. | Name | Portrait | Tenure | Party | Notes | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Term start | Term end | Duration | |||||||
| Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH) | |||||||||
| 1. | Madapati Hanumantha Rao |  |
1951 | 1954 | 4 years | Andhra Maha Sabha | First mayor of MCH | [citation needed] | |
| Incumbent due to Andhra Pradesh reorganization issue (1954-1957) Elections not held |
[citation needed] | ||||||||
| 2. | Krishna Swamy Mudiraj | 1957 | 1958 | 1 year | Mudiraj Maha Sabha | First backward caste mayor of MCH First mayor after Andhra Pradesh reorganization. |
[2] | ||
| 3. | 1958 | 1961 | [citation needed] | ||||||
| 4. | V. Ram Moorthy Naidu | 1961 | 1962 | Indian National Congress | [citation needed] | ||||
| 5. | Rani Kumudini Devi | 1962 | 1963 | 1 year | First women mayor of MCH | [3] | |||
| 6. | MR Shyam Rao | 1964 | 1965 | 1 year | |||||
| 7. | Sarojini Pulla Reddy | 1965 | 1966 | 1 year | |||||
| 8. | Mir Akber Ali Nasiri | 1966 | 1967 | 1 year | First minority mayor of MCH | [citation needed] | |||
| 9. | K. Konda Reddy | 1968 | 1968 | less than one year | First Mayor who is in Least term of office | [citation needed] | |||
| 10. | B. Kumud Nayak | 1968 | 1969 | 1 year | First scheduled tribe caste women Mayor of MCH | [3] | |||
| 11. | Laxminarayana Mudiraj | 1969 | 1970 | 1 year | [4] | ||||
| 12. | 1970 | 1975 | |||||||
| Vacant due to emergency (1975-1977) Elections not held (1978) | |||||||||
| 13. | 1978 | 1982 | |||||||
| 14. | 1982 | 1986 | |||||||
| 15. | Kalra Prakash Rao | 1986 | 1987 | 1 year | All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen | First dalit mayor of MCH | [5] | ||
| 16. | Anumula Satyanarayana | 1987 | 1989 | 2 years | [6] | ||||
| 17. | Allampalli Pochaiah | 1989 | 1991 | 2 years | |||||
| 18. | Mir Zulfeqar Ali | 1991 | 1995 | 4 years | |||||
| 19. | Mohammed Mubeen | 1995 | 1999 | 4 years | |||||
| 17. | Mir Zulfeqar Ali | 1999 | 2002 | 3 years | First second term mayor of MCH | [citation needed] | |||
| 18. | Teegala Krishna Reddy |  |
2002 | 2007 | 5 years | Telugu Desam Party | First Mayor who completed his term Last mayor of MCH. |
[7] | |
Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (Since 2007)
| # | Portrait | Mayor (Lifespan) Ward |
Term of the office | Election | Party | Ref. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Term start | Term end | Duration | |||||||||
| Elections not held during the period (2007 – 2009) | |||||||||||
| 1 |  |
Banda Karthika Reddy (born 1977) Corporator for Tarnaka |
4 December 2009 | 4 December 2011 | 2 years, 0 days | 2009 | Indian National Congress | [8][9] | |||
| 2 | .jpg) |
Mohammad Majid Hussain (born 1980) Corporator for Ahmed Nagar |
4 January 2012 | 7 May 2014 | 2 years, 123 days | All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen | [10][11][12] | ||||
| Elections not held during the period (2014 – 2016) | |||||||||||
| 3 | .jpg) |
Bonthu Rammohan (born 1973) Corporator for Cherlapally |
11 February 2016 | 10 February 2021 | 4 years, 365 days | 2016 | Telangana Rashtra Samithi | [13] | |||
| 4 | .jpg) |
Gadwal Vijayalakshmi (born 1964) Corporator for Banjara Hills |
11 February 2021 | 10 February 2026 | 4 years, 364 days | 2020 | [14][15] | ||||
| Elections not held during the period (2026 – present) | |||||||||||