Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, February 10 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) corporator Sameer Rajurkar was elected as the mayor of the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Municipal Corporation on Tuesday, while Shiv Sena's Rajendra Janjal became the deputy mayor.
Rajurkar defeated All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) corporator Ashok Hiwrale by a margin of 37 votes.
Rajendra Janjal, of the Shiv Sena, was elected as the deputy mayor in an election presided over by Collector Dilip Swami.
The BJP has 57 seats in the 115-member civic body, while the Shiv Sena, which contested the January 15 polls independently, secured 13 seats.
However, the parties came together for the election of the mayor and deputy mayor.
AIMIM is the largest party in the opposition, with 33 seats, followed by Shiv Sena UBT (6), Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (4), while Congress and NCP (SP) secured one each.
