NCP, Congress win in Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and their alliance partner, the Congress, retained power by bagging the posts of mayor and deputy mayor respectively in the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation elections. In the mayoral polls, NCP’s Jaywant Sutar defeated Shiv Sena’s Somnath Waskar by 29 votes. Congress' Mandakini Mhatre defeated Shiv Sena’s Bhoir by 26 votes in the deputy mayor elections.