BJP’s Ritu Tawde takes over as Mayor of Mumbai, Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Ghadi is her deputy

Mumbai, 11/2: Amid chants of ‘Jai Shree Ram…Jai Shree Ram’, ‘Modi…Modi’ and ‘Deva Bhau…Deva Bhau’ – history was created in the iconic BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) headquarters as India’s richest civic body got the second BJP Mayor in over four decades time.

From 1982-83, Dr Prabhakar Pai of the BJP was the Mayor of Bombay, as the metropolis was then called – and came to occupy the post just after the 1980 formation of the BJP.