Nagpur: Mayor Sandip Joshi of BJP has resigned from the post. Along with Joshi, deputy mayor Manisha Kothe too has resigned from the post. Both have handed over their resignations to municipal commissioner Radhakrishnan B.
Dayashankar Tiwari will be the city’s 54th mayor.
Joshi announced his decision to give up the post at a press conference on Monday. City BJP president and MLC Pravin Datke said that the party would soon declare the name of new deputy mayor.
After Nanda Jichkar completed her two-and-a-half-year term as mayor, the BJP split the remaining term of 26 months between two senior corporators. Party sources said both Tiwari and Joshi were the main contenders since the mayor’s post was reserved for the general category.
Joshi, a close aide of former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, was elected the 53rd mayor for 13 months and assumed charge on November 22 last year.