Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar ZP: BJP win top posts
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the posts of president and vice-president of the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Zilla Parishad in Maharashtra unopposed here on Wednesday.
Avinash Galande was elected as the president, and Jitendra Jaiswal as the vice-president of the ZP, an official said.
The process to elect them was held in the district collector's office premises. In the election to the 63-seat Zilla Parishad last month, the BJP bagged 23 seats, followed by the Shinde-led Shiv Sena with 21 seats. Shiv Sena (UBT) won nine seats and the NCP won four. On Wednesday, as no other party fielded their candidates for the posts, the BJP’s Galande and Jaiswal were declared winners for the posts of president and vice-president, respectively, the official said.
The Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, as well as rival Shiv Sena (UBT) headed by Uddhav Thackeray, remained absent during the process, and out of the total 63 members, only 31 were present, he said.
