The Mayor of Municipal Corporation is elected by

Part IXA of the Constitution (inserted by the 74th Constitutional Amendment) establishes Municipal Corporations as bodies of directly elected councillors (corporators), each representing one ward, but it leaves the exact method of choosing the Corporation's presiding officer, the Mayor, to be laid down by each state's own Municipal Corporation Act. Under the model followed by most states, the elected councillors choose the Mayor from among themselves once the Corporation is constituted; a smaller number of states have separately legislated for the Mayor to be elected directly by the city's voters.

This is the general convention followed by most State Municipal Corporation Acts framed under the Part IXA / 74th Constitutional Amendment framework: the elected councillors, once elected to the Corporation, elect one of their own members as Mayor at their first sitting. For this specific TPSC (Tripura) item, the applicable law is the Tripura Municipal Act, 1994, whose Section 44 confirms exactly this mechanism — the elected members of the Corporation elect the Mayor from among themselves — with no role for elected members of the state Legislative Assembly (a separate body, the state legislature) or for a separate direct city-wide ballot for the mayoral post.

• Elected representatives of the Corporation electing one of their own as Mayor is exactly the mechanism this convention (and Section 44 of the Tripura Act) describes.

• Bringing in elected members of the Legislative Assembly would blend two separate elected bodies, the Corporation and the State Legislature, which the framework keeps distinct.

• A city-wide direct popular vote for the mayoral post is a different model that some states have adopted through separate legislation, not the mechanism under the Tripura Municipal Act.

• A combination of the direct and indirect mechanisms cannot both operate under a single statutory provision that specifies one exclusive method.

Therefore, under the general 74th-Amendment-era convention as confirmed by the Tripura Municipal Act, 1994, the Mayor of the Municipal Corporation is elected by all the elected representatives of the Corporation.