After new mayors and other office-bearers in Ahmedabad and Vadodara, the BJP in Gujarat on Tuesday announced the names of new mayors and officers-bearers of civic bodies for other cities, including Surat, Rajkot, Jamnagar, and Bhavnagar.
The party has picked Dakshesh Mavani as the new mayor of Surat. He has replaced Hemani Boghawala, whose two-and-a-half-year term is ending. The party has replaced the entire team along with the mayor, deputy mayor, standing committee chief, leader of the ruling party in the civic body, and members of various committees.
In the 120-seat Surat civic body, the BJP has 93 corporators, while the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is the only Opposition party with 27 corporators, some of whom joined the BJP but are still AAP members in the civic body on paper.
