BJP's Ranjana Bhanasi elected as Nashik mayor

Nashik (Maha): BJP's Ranjana Bhanasi was today elected unopposed as the Nashik Mayor. Likewise, Prathamesh Gite of the BJP was elected unopposed as the city's Deputy Mayor, a civic official said.

Candidates from Congress-NCP for the post of Mayor and Deputy Mayor, who filled their nomination papers, pulled out of the race today, paving way for election of Bhanasi and Gite, he said. Shiv Sena did not contest the Mayoral and Deputy Mayoral polls. In the polls, BJP emerged victorious bagging 66 seats of the total 122 in the Nashik Municipal Corporation.

Shiv Sena won 35 seats, while NCP and Congress bagged six seats each. MNS, which was in power in Nashik civic body, managed to get only 5 seats.