Chandigarh: BJP councillor Saurabh Joshi was elected the new mayor of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation on Thursday as the party swept the mayoral polls by also securing the posts of senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor. In a three-cornered contest for the post of mayor of the Chandigarh civic body, BJP nominee Joshi secured 18 votes against 11 for Aam Aadmi Party's Yogesh Dhingra and seven for Congress' Gurpreet Singh Gabi. After BJP's Joshi (46) was declared the new mayor of Chandigarh, he conducted the elections for the posts of senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor. BJP nominee for senior deputy mayor Jasmanpreet Singh defeated AAP councillor Manuar Khan, while BJP's Suman Sharma won the post of deputy mayor by defeating AAP nominee Jaswinder Kaur. Before the election for the post of deputy mayor, AAP councillor Ramchandra Yadav, who had filed his nomination as an independent, withdrew his candidature.