BJP councillor Saurabh Joshi was elected as 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 the 35-member House of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation, the BJP has 18 councillors, the AAP has 11, and the Congress has six. The Chandigarh MP also has a voting right as an ex officio member of the 35-member municipal corporation. After BJP’s Joshi was declared the new mayor of Chandigarh, he conducted the elections for the posts of senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor. After voting for the mayor’s post, all six Congress councillors and Congress MP Tewari left the House.